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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 describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Biology vs. destiny.
(b) Science vs. religion.
(c) Future vs. past.
(d) Faith vs. destiny.

2. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Beauvoir.
(b) Irigaray.
(c) Freud.
(d) Lacan.

3. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Gender roles.

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

5. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Determinism and free will.
(b) Science and religion.
(c) Destiny and fate.
(d) Society and self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?

2. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?

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

4. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

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

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