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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. According to Butler, the XY female poses problems to what type of categories?
(a) Traditional gender.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Social.
(d) Conservative.

2. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Conservative politics.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Post-feminist politics.
(d) Masculine politics.

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

4. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of clarity.
(b) Lack of societal mechanism.
(c) Lack of constraint.
(d) Lack of men.

5. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?
(a) Domination.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Foucault critique?

2. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?

3. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?

4. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?

5. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?

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