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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. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Not well-defined.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Well-defined.
(d) Not concrete.

2. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Heterosexuals.
(b) Homosexuals.
(c) Aesexuals.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

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

4. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Constructions.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Constraints.
(d) Sexes.

5. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?
(a) Good intentions.
(b) Low intelligence.
(c) High intelligence.
(d) Bad intentions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

2. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?

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

4. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?

5. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

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