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

2. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Domination.
(b) Identity.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Feminism.

3. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Heterosexuality.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Identity.

4. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Post-feminist politics.
(c) Conservative politics.
(d) Masculine politics.

5. Butler says that Rubin's story relies too much on which of the following?
(a) Aaer.
(b) Repression.
(c) Subversion.
(d) Angst.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler describes which of these as not being inevitable?

3. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

4. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

5. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?

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