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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, Section V, Reformulating Prohibition as Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?
(a) Levi-Strauss.
(b) Freud.
(c) Butler.
(d) Lacan.

2. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?
(a) Feminists.
(b) Masculinists.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Women.

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

4. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of ntelligibility.
(b) Matrix of gender trouble.
(c) Matrix of feminism.
(d) Matrix of feminist politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Heterosexism in a masquerade is sustained by which of the following, as Butler describes?

2. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

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

4. Butler describes repression of bisexuality as a locus of which of the following?

5. According to Butler, laws are results of which of the following?

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