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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. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Gender absence.
(b) Absence of construction.
(c) Linguistic absence.
(d) Absence of constraint.

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

3. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?
(a) Religion-science.
(b) Human-animal.
(c) Parent-child.
(d) Master-slave.

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

5. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Not concrete.
(b) Not well-defined.
(c) Well-defined.
(d) Concrete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

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

3. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

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

5. Which is true, according to Foucault?

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