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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section III, Monique Wittig, Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Herculine's last name?
(a) Barstow.
(b) Barret.
(c) Barbin.
(d) Bortin.

2. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Societal mechanisms.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Entrapping assumptions.
(d) Feminist politics.

3. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?
(a) Good intentions.
(b) High intelligence.
(c) Low intelligence.
(d) Bad intentions.

4. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?
(a) Not all bad.
(b) Never patriarchal.
(c) All patriarchal.
(d) All bad.

5. Kristeva argues that which of the following exists in poetry?
(a) Subversion.
(b) Dependence.
(c) Energy.
(d) Defeat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?

2. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?

3. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

4. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

5. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

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