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

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

3. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of constraint.
(b) Lack of societal mechanism.
(c) Lack of men.
(d) Lack of clarity.

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

5. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Absence of construction.
(b) Gender absence.
(c) Absence of constraint.
(d) Linguistic absence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler states that women must take which approach?

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

3. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

4. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?

5. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?

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