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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. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Judge.
(b) Relieve.
(c) Oppress.
(d) Support.

2. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) More open.
(b) Disappearing.
(c) Less open.
(d) Ignored.

3. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Ignored.
(b) Left open.
(c) Closed tightly.
(d) Closed loosly.

4. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) Men.

5. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Faith vs. destiny.
(b) Biology vs. destiny.
(c) Science vs. religion.
(d) Future vs. past.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?

4. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?

5. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?

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