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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) Constructed.
(b) Identified.
(c) Caused.
(d) Chosen.

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

3. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Men.
(c) Identity.
(d) Children.

4. 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 determinism.
(d) Metaphysics of substance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which is true, according to Foucault?

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

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