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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, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Forced homosexuality.
(b) Voluntary heterosexuality.
(c) Compulsory heterosexuality.
(d) Cumpulsory homosexuality.

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

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

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

5. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of ntelligibility.
(b) Matrix of feminist politics.
(c) Matrix of feminism.
(d) Matrix of gender trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

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

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

4. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

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

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