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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section III, Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Societal mechanisms.
(b) Entrapping assumptions.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Foundationalism.

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

3. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?
(a) Parent-child.
(b) Human-animal.
(c) Religion-science.
(d) Master-slave.

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

5. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of clarity.
(b) Lack of constraint.
(c) Lack of societal mechanism.
(d) Lack of men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

2. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

3. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

4. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

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

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