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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. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Circular.
(c) Bigoted.
(d) Fair.

2. 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.

3. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gender.
(c) Heterosexuality.
(d) Identity.

4. Which of the following terms does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Inconclusive.
(c) Masculinist.
(d) Inactive.

5. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?
(a) All patriarchal.
(b) Not all bad.
(c) All bad.
(d) Never patriarchal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?

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

3. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?

4. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?

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

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