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

2. Which is true, according to Foucault?
(a) Society does not impact identity.
(b) Societal mechanisms are more important than identity.
(c) Requirements precede identity.
(d) Entrapping assumptions are necessary.

3. Some sexuality is enhanced by which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Society.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Illness.
(d) Law.

4. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Children.
(c) Men.
(d) Foundationalism.

5. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?
(a) A hidden agent.
(b) A scapegoat.
(c) A villain.
(d) A savior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?

2. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?

3. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

4. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?

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

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