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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. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?
(a) Forbidding incest.
(b) Forbidding women to breastfeed.
(c) Allowing incest.
(d) Allowing women to have an education.

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

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

4. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Political.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Childish.
(d) Woman.

5. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?
(a) Heteronormative.
(b) Faith.
(c) Incorporation.
(d) Gender identification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?

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

3. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?

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

5. Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following?

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