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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. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Utopian revolution.
(b) Masculine revolution.
(c) Poltiical revolution.
(d) Angry revolution.

3. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of feminism.
(b) Matrix of ntelligibility.
(c) Matrix of feminist politics.
(d) Matrix of gender trouble.

4. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Trust.
(b) Desire.
(c) Unity.
(d) Destiny.

5. Which of the following terms does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Masculinist.
(c) Inactive.
(d) Inconclusive.

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 describes which of these as not being inevitable?

3. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

4. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

5. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

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