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

2. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Representation.
(b) Identity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Solidarity.

3. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Constraint.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Determinism.
(d) Bodies.

4. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-feminist.
(b) Post-masculinity.
(c) Post-structuralist.
(d) Post-political.

5. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?
(a) Master-slave.
(b) Religion-science.
(c) Parent-child.
(d) Human-animal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

2. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?

3. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

4. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

5. Some sexuality is enhanced by which of the following, according to Butler?

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