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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) Biology vs. destiny.
(b) Faith vs. destiny.
(c) Science vs. religion.
(d) Future vs. past.

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

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

4. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Unified categories.
(c) Feminine identity.
(d) Foundationalism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?

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

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