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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. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?
(a) Gender.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Masquerade.
(d) Identity.

2. What does non-reciprocity relate to?
(a) Language.
(b) Political oppression.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Cultural laws.

3. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(b) Disconnected from feminism.
(c) Disconnected from the body.
(d) Disconnected from destiny.

4. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?
(a) Incorporation.
(b) Gender.
(c) Identification.
(d) Melancholia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?

3. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

4. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?

5. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?

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