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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's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Women.
(b) Politics.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

2. 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.

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

4. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) Disappearing.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Less open.
(d) More open.

5. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Iden
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?

4. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

5. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?

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