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

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

3. 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.

4. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Gender.
(b) Society.
(c) Construction.
(d) Identity.

5. 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 feminism.
(b) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

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

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

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

5. Which is true, according to Foucault?

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