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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. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?
(a) Gender.
(b) Identity.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Masquerade.

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

3. Some sexuality is enhanced by which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Illness.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Society.
(d) Law.

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

5. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?
(a) Melancholy of gender.
(b) Identity.
(c) Incorporation.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

4. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

5. Butler says that Rubin's story relies too much on which of the following?

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