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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. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

2. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Bodies.
(b) Constraints.
(c) Sexes.
(d) Constructions.

3. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Gender.
(b) Construction.
(c) Identity.
(d) Society.

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

5. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Masculine identity.
(c) Post-feminist politics.
(d) Feminine identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The process of construction, as described by Butler, 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. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

4. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

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

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