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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 VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Absence of construction.
(b) Linguistic absence.
(c) Absence of constraint.
(d) Gender absence.

2. Butler suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Heterosexuals.
(d) Men.

3. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminism.
(b) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from the body.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

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

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

4. Butler states that women must take which approach?

5. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?

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