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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 if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(b) Disconnected from feminism.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from the body.

2. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Entrapping assumptions.
(c) Societal mechanisms.
(d) Feminist politics.

3. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
(a) Political identity.
(b) Childish identity.
(c) Societial-prescribed identity.
(d) Feminine identiy.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

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

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

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

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