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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 describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Determinism and free will.
(b) Society and self.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Destiny and fate.

2. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Identified.
(b) Chosen.
(c) Caused.
(d) Constructed.

3. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Constraint.

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

5. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Politics.
(c) Fame.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

2. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

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

4. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

5. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?

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