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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 IV, Theorizing the Binary, The Unitary, and Beyond.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Feminist.
(c) Antifoundationalist.
(d) Foundationalist.

2. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Education.
(d) Political action.

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

4. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Post-feminist politics.
(b) Conservative politics.
(c) Masculine politics.
(d) Feminist politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

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

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

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

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

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