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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. 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.

2. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Well-defined.
(c) Not concrete.
(d) Not well-defined.

3. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Intelligible.
(c) Constructed.
(d) Incoherent.

4. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Feminist politics strengthen.
(b) Foundationalism results.
(c) Obscures reality.
(d) Societal mechanisms result.

5. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?
(a) Unified.
(b) Simple.
(c) False.
(d) Complex.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

3. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

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

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

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