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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. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) Less open.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Disappearing.
(d) More open.

2. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Science and religion.
(b) Destiny and fate.
(c) Determinism and free will.
(d) Society and self.

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

4. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A reason.
(b) A cause.
(c) An excuse.
(d) A premise.

5. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Constraint.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is true, according to Foucault?

2. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

3. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

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

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

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