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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. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
(a) Reality.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Discreet.
(d) Individuality.

2. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Sex.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Faith.
(d) Motherhood.

3. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Language.
(d) Utopian society.

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

5. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of clarity.
(b) Lack of societal mechanism.
(c) Lack of constraint.
(d) Lack of men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?

2. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?

3. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

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

5. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

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