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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 claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Totalizing.
(b) Reluctantly.
(c) Politely.
(d) Generously.

2. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Societal mechanisms.
(c) Power discourse.
(d) Feminism.

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

4. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Unified categories.

5. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Pregenital.
(b) Postfeminist.
(c) Postgenital.
(d) Prefeminist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?

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

3. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?

4. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?

5. Which is true, according to Foucault?

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