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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 is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Undermines identity.
(b) Marginilizes people.
(c) Supports feminist politics.
(d) Increases identity.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

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

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

4. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

5. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?

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