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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 claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Totalizing.
(b) Politely.
(c) Generously.
(d) Reluctantly.

2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(b) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(c) How sexality is a societal construction.
(d) How societal mechanisms create identity.

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

4. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Sex.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

2. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?

3. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?

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

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

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