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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 says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?
(a) An evil man.
(b) A savior.
(c) A villain.
(d) A scapegoat.

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

3. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?
(a) Ontology of gender.
(b) Ontology of feminism.
(c) Ontology of sex.
(d) Ontology of liberation.

4. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Beauvoir.
(c) Irigaray.
(d) Lacan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

2. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

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

4. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?

5. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?

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