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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 the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Faith vs. destiny.
(b) Future vs. past.
(c) Biology vs. destiny.
(d) Science vs. religion.

2. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Circular.
(b) Fair.
(c) Bigoted.
(d) Powerful.

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

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

5. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Unified categories.
(b) Feminine identity.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Foundationalism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is true, according to Foucault?

3. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?

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

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

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