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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. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Reality.
(c) Discreet.
(d) Faithful.

2. What type of media did Herculine write?
(a) Scripts.
(b) Journals.
(c) Novels.
(d) Poems.

3. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Women.
(d) Feminists.

4. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?
(a) Metaphysics of bodies.
(b) Metaphysics of constraint.
(c) Metaphysics of substance.
(d) Metaphysics of determinism.

5. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Marginilizes people.
(b) Supports feminist politics.
(c) Undermines identity.
(d) Increases identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?

2. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?

3. According to Butler, which lies outside of language and symbolism?

4. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?

5. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?

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