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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. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Post-feminist politics.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Feminine identity.
(d) Masculine identity.

2. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Unified categories.
(d) Foundationalism.

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

4. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Iden
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Feminism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?

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

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

4. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

5. Which is true, according to Foucault?

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