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

2. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Not concrete.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Well-defined.
(d) Not well-defined.

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Masculine identity.
(c) Post-feminist politics.
(d) Feminine identity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?

2. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

3. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

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

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