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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 is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Feminist politics strengthen.
(b) Obscures reality.
(c) Societal mechanisms result.
(d) Foundationalism results.

2. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Woman.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Sex.

3. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Unified categories.
(d) Feminist politics.

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

5. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Society.
(b) Construction.
(c) Gender.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

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

4. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?

5. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

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