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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 states that women must take which approach?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Antifoundationalist.
(d) Foundationalist.

2. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Societal mechanisms result.
(b) Obscures reality.
(c) Foundationalism results.
(d) Feminist politics strengthen.

3. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?
(a) Simple.
(b) False.
(c) Unified.
(d) Complex.

4. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Substance.
(b) Social construction.
(c) Choice.
(d) Societal mechanism.

5. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Bodies.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Determinism.
(d) Constraint.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?

2. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

3. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?

4. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?

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

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