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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. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?
(a) Complex.
(b) Simple.
(c) Unified.
(d) False.

2. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Constructed.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Intelligible.
(d) Incoherent.

3. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Judge.
(b) Relieve.
(c) Oppress.
(d) Support.

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

5. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
(a) Childish identity.
(b) Political identity.
(c) Societial-prescribed identity.
(d) Feminine identiy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?

2. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

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

4. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

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

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