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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. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Constraints.
(b) Sexes.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Constructions.

2. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Society.
(b) Construction.
(c) Gender.
(d) Identity.

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

4. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Constraint.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Sexuality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

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

3. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?

4. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?

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

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