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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, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Forced homosexuality.
(b) Compulsory heterosexuality.
(c) Voluntary heterosexuality.
(d) Cumpulsory homosexuality.

2. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Irigaray.
(b) Beauvoir.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Freud.

3. To Kristeva, poetry helps express the dependence of who?
(a) Grandparents.
(b) Children.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Fathers.

4. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Feminist politics strengthen.
(b) Foundationalism results.
(c) Societal mechanisms result.
(d) Obscures reality.

5. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?
(a) Neo-Lacanian.
(b) Lacanian.
(c) Butlerian.
(d) Kristevan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva views female homosexuality as which of the following?

2. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

3. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?

4. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?

5. Butler says that distinctions between sexes and genders do not have to become which of the following?

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