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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's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Gender absence.
(b) Absence of constraint.
(c) Linguistic absence.
(d) Absence of construction.

2. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?
(a) False.
(b) Unified.
(c) Simple.
(d) Complex.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?

2. Which is true, according to Foucault?

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

4. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?

5. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?

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