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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. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Judge.
(b) Oppress.
(c) Relieve.
(d) Support.

2. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A reason.
(b) A cause.
(c) An excuse.
(d) A premise.

3. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Choice.
(b) Social construction.
(c) Substance.
(d) Societal mechanism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

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

5. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

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