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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. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Masculine identity.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Post-feminist politics.

2. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of men.
(b) Lack of clarity.
(c) Lack of constraint.
(d) Lack of societal mechanism.

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

4. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Absence of construction.
(b) Gender absence.
(c) Absence of constraint.
(d) Linguistic absence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

2. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

3. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

4. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

5. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?

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