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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Introduction and Section I, Structuralism's Critical Exchange.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Domination.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Identity.

2. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Structuralists.
(d) Utopians.

3. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(b) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(c) How sexality is a societal construction.
(d) How societal mechanisms create identity.

4. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Destiny and fate.
(b) Society and self.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Determinism and free will.

5. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Poltiical revolution.
(b) Utopian revolution.
(c) Masculine revolution.
(d) Angry revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?

2. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?

3. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?

4. Which is true, according to Foucault?

5. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?

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