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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 says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Fame.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

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

3. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Masculinism.
(b) Linguistic sexuality.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Identity.

4. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Beauvoir.
(c) Irigaray.
(d) Lacan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?

5. Butler states that women must take which approach?

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