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

2. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Destiny.
(b) Desire.
(c) Trust.
(d) Unity.

3. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Woman.
(b) Political.
(c) Childish.
(d) Masculine.

4. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Supports feminist politics.
(b) Increases identity.
(c) Undermines identity.
(d) Marginilizes people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

2. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?

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

4. Which is true, according to Foucault?

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

(see the answer key)

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