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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. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Pregenital.
(b) Postgenital.
(c) Postfeminist.
(d) Prefeminist.

2. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Institutionalized.
(b) Faithless.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Inactive.

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

4. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Faith.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Sex.
(d) Motherhood.

5. 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 feminism.
(b) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(c) Disconnected from the body.
(d) Disconnected from destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

2. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

3. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

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

5. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

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