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

2. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Increases identity.
(b) Supports feminist politics.
(c) Marginilizes people.
(d) Undermines identity.

3. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Societal mechanisms result.
(b) Feminist politics strengthen.
(c) Obscures reality.
(d) Foundationalism results.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

4. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

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

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