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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 argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?
(a) Misguided.
(b) True.
(c) Debatable.
(d) False.

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

3. Which term does Butler use to describe Kristeva's theory?
(a) Self-defeating.
(b) Angsty.
(c) Worrisome.
(d) Wry.

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

5. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gender.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Social regulations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who emphasized linguistic distinctions between sexes as imposing cultural heterosexuality?

3. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?

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

5. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?

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