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. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Beauvoir.
(c) Irigaray.
(d) Freud.

2. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Iden
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

3. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Circular.
(c) Bigoted.
(d) Fair.

4. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Identity.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Heterosexuality.

5. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Gender.
(b) Construction.
(c) Society.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

2. Which is true, according to Foucault?

3. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

4. Butler states that women must take which approach?

5. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 164 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample