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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. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Bodies.
(b) Constraints.
(c) Constructions.
(d) Sexes.

2. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Identity.
(b) Society.
(c) Gender.
(d) Construction.

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

4. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Obscures reality.
(b) Foundationalism results.
(c) Societal mechanisms result.
(d) Feminist politics strengthen.

5. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Foundationalist.
(d) Antifoundationalist.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?

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

5. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

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