View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section V, Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Choice.
(b) Social construction.
(c) Societal mechanism.
(d) Substance.

2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Faith vs. destiny.
(b) Science vs. religion.
(c) Future vs. past.
(d) Biology vs. destiny.

3. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Compulsory heterosexuality.
(b) Voluntary heterosexuality.
(c) Cumpulsory homosexuality.
(d) Forced homosexuality.

4. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Increases identity.
(b) Undermines identity.
(c) Marginilizes people.
(d) Supports feminist politics.

5. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?
(a) Identity.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?

2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

4. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

5. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 226 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample