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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. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Unified categories.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Feminine identity.

2. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Judge.
(b) Relieve.
(c) Support.
(d) Oppress.

3. According to Butler, laws are results of which of the following?
(a) Subversion.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Social forces.

4. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Foundationalist.
(c) Antifoundationalist.
(d) Masculine.

5. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?
(a) A scapegoat.
(b) An evil man.
(c) A savior.
(d) A villain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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