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

2. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Caused.
(b) Chosen.
(c) Identified.
(d) Constructed.

3. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Marcuse.
(c) Riviere.
(d) Rubin.

4. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of women for women.
(b) The sexual preference of men for men.
(c) The sexual preference of women for men.
(d) The sexual preference of men for women.

5. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?
(a) Anger.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?

2. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?

3. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

4. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

5. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

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