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

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

3. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Left open.
(b) Closed tightly.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Closed loosly.

4. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Representation.
(d) Identity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

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

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

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