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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. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Utopians.
(c) Feminists.
(d) Structuralists.

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

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

4. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Support.
(b) Oppress.
(c) Relieve.
(d) Judge.

5. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?
(a) Feminine desire.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Homoeroticism.
(d) Masculine desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?

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

3. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

4. Kristeva argues that which of the following exists in poetry?

5. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?

(see the answer key)

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