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

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

3. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Constructed.
(b) Caused.
(c) Identified.
(d) Chosen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

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

4. Which is true, according to Foucault?

5. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?

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