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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 describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Destiny and fate.
(b) Determinism and free will.
(c) Society and self.
(d) Science and religion.

2. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?
(a) Heterosexual.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Maternal.
(d) Intersexed.

3. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Choice.
(b) Substance.
(c) Societal mechanism.
(d) Social construction.

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

5. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Gender absence.
(b) Linguistic absence.
(c) Absence of construction.
(d) Absence of constraint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term does Butler use to describe Kristeva's theory?

2. Butler asks if what kind of human can exist?

3. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

4. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?

5. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?

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