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

2. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Woman.
(b) Childish.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Political.

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Post-feminist politics.
(c) Feminine identity.
(d) Masculine identity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

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

5. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

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