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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. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
(a) Feminine identiy.
(b) Societial-prescribed identity.
(c) Political identity.
(d) Childish identity.

2. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Constructions.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Constraints.
(d) Sexes.

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

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

5. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Unity.
(b) Desire.
(c) Trust.
(d) Destiny.

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

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

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

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

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