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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, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of constraint.
(b) Lack of societal mechanism.
(c) Lack of clarity.
(d) Lack of men.

2. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Social construction.
(b) Societal mechanism.
(c) Choice.
(d) Substance.

3. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Gender.
(b) Heterosexuality.
(c) Sex.
(d) Identity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

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

3. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?

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

5. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

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