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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. Through apposition, what does Wittig think lesbianism engages?
(a) Heterosexuality.
(b) Homoeroticism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Anger.

2. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?
(a) Anger.
(b) Social forces.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Subversion.

3. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?
(a) Sex.
(b) Incorporation.
(c) Melancholy of gender.
(d) Identity.

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

5. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Gender.
(c) Iden
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?

2. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?

3. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

4. Who does Butler believe mistakenly holds the idea of a separation between sex and gender?

5. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?

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