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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. Which is true, according to Foucault?
(a) Society does not impact identity.
(b) Entrapping assumptions are necessary.
(c) Requirements precede identity.
(d) Societal mechanisms are more important than identity.

2. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?
(a) Gender roles.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) Masculinity.

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

4. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?
(a) Metaphysics of determinism.
(b) Metaphysics of constraint.
(c) Metaphysics of substance.
(d) Metaphysics of bodies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

3. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?

4. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?

5. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?

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