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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of women for men.
(b) The sexual preference of women for women.
(c) The sexual preference of men for women.
(d) The sexual preference of men for men.

2. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Structuralists.
(c) Utopians.
(d) Feminists.

3. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Faith.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Sex.
(d) Feminism.

4. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?
(a) Maternal identification.
(b) Gender identification.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) Unconscious identification.

5. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?
(a) Faith.
(b) Gender.
(c) Identity.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

2. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

3. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?

4. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?

5. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

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