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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. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Post-feminist politics.
(b) Masculine politics.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Conservative politics.

2. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Constraint.

3. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Entrapping assumptions.
(c) Societal mechanisms.
(d) Foundationalism.

4. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Education.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Political action.

5. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Supports feminist politics.
(b) Increases identity.
(c) Marginilizes people.
(d) Undermines identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

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

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

4. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

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

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