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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. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?
(a) Woman to woman.
(b) Father and daughter.
(c) Mother and child.
(d) Brother and sister.

2. Kristeva argues for the semiotic as a source of which of the following?
(a) Dependent subversion.
(b) Psychosis subversion.
(c) Effective subversion.
(d) Indirect subversion.

3. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Trust.
(b) Destiny.
(c) Desire.
(d) Unity.

4. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?
(a) The unconscious.
(b) Gender.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) The maternal.

5. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Childish.
(b) Woman.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Political.

Short Answer Questions

1. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

2. Wittig claims that _____ is not the rejection of heterosexuality?

3. What is homoeroticism?

4. Through apposition, what does Wittig think lesbianism engages?

5. How does Butler feel about the strategy of subversion?

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