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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 presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Woman.
(b) Political.
(c) Childish.
(d) Masculine.

2. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) Disappearing.
(b) Less open.
(c) Ignored.
(d) More open.

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

4. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A premise.
(b) A reason.
(c) An excuse.
(d) A cause.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

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

3. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?

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

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

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