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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. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gender.
(c) Masquerade.
(d) Identification.

2. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?
(a) Unconscious identification.
(b) Gender identification.
(c) Maternal identification.
(d) Melancholia.

3. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Sex.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Woman.
(d) Gender.

4. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Difficulties.

5. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Oppress.
(b) Relieve.
(c) Support.
(d) Judge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

2. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

3. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?

4. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

5. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?

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