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

2. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Post-feminist politics.
(d) Masculine identity.

3. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(b) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(c) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(d) How sexality is a societal construction.

4. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?
(a) Simple.
(b) Unified.
(c) False.
(d) Complex.

5. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A cause.
(b) A reason.
(c) An excuse.
(d) A premise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?

2. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

3. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

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

5. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?

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