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

2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Biology vs. destiny.
(b) Faith vs. destiny.
(c) Future vs. past.
(d) Science vs. religion.

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

4. What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws?
(a) They are humble.
(b) They are naive.
(c) They are based on lies.
(d) They are oppressive.

5. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?
(a) Maternal identification.
(b) Gender identification.
(c) Unconscious identification.
(d) Melancholia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

3. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?

4. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

5. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?

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