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

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

3. Which is true, according to Foucault?
(a) Entrapping assumptions are necessary.
(b) Requirements precede identity.
(c) Society does not impact identity.
(d) Societal mechanisms are more important than identity.

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

5. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Women.
(b) Children.
(c) Politics.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?

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

3. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

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

5. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?

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