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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 thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Ignored.
(b) Left open.
(c) Closed tightly.
(d) Closed loosly.

2. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A cause.
(b) An excuse.
(c) A premise.
(d) A reason.

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

4. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?
(a) Forbidding incest.
(b) Forbidding women to breastfeed.
(c) Allowing incest.
(d) Allowing women to have an education.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?

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

3. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

4. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?

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

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