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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. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?
(a) Homoeroticism.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) Heterosexuality.
(d) Feminism.

2. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Fair.
(b) Circular.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Bigoted.

3. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Politics.
(c) Fame.
(d) Truth.

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

5. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-political.
(b) Post-structuralist.
(c) Post-feminist.
(d) Post-masculinity.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?

4. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

5. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

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