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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 says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?
(a) Metaphysics of bodies.
(b) Metaphysics of determinism.
(c) Metaphysics of constraint.
(d) Metaphysics of substance.

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

3. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Not well-defined.
(b) Well-defined.
(c) Not concrete.
(d) Concrete.

4. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(b) Disconnected from feminism.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from the body.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

3. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

4. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

5. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

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