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

2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Biology vs. destiny.
(b) Future vs. past.
(c) Faith vs. destiny.
(d) Science vs. religion.

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

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

5. Which is true, according to Foucault?
(a) Requirements precede identity.
(b) Entrapping assumptions are necessary.
(c) Societal mechanisms are more important than identity.
(d) Society does not impact identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

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

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

4. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

5. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

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