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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. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Rubin.
(c) Riviere.
(d) Marcuse.

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

3. Butler says that Rubin's story relies too much on which of the following?
(a) Angst.
(b) Repression.
(c) Aaer.
(d) Subversion.

4. Which is true, according to Foucault?
(a) Entrapping assumptions are necessary.
(b) Requirements precede identity.
(c) Society does not impact identity.
(d) Societal mechanisms are more important than identity.

5. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?
(a) Incorporation.
(b) Faith.
(c) Gender identification.
(d) Heteronormative.

Short Answer Questions

1. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?

2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

4. The theory of semiotic aspects of language seems to be a direct critique of which theorist?

5. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

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