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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 believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Chosen.
(b) Caused.
(c) Constructed.
(d) Identified.

2. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Destiny.
(b) Trust.
(c) Desire.
(d) Unity.

3. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Children.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

4. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(b) Disconnected from feminism.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from the body.

5. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(b) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(c) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(d) How sexality is a societal construction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

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

4. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

5. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?

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