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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. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
(a) Societial-prescribed identity.
(b) Childish identity.
(c) Feminine identiy.
(d) Political identity.

2. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Fame.
(c) Politics.
(d) Truth.

3. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Masculine politics.
(b) Post-feminist politics.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Conservative politics.

4. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?
(a) Parent-child.
(b) Religion-science.
(c) Human-animal.
(d) Master-slave.

5. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Closed loosly.
(b) Left open.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Closed tightly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?

2. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

3. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

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

5. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

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