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

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

3. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Aesexuals.
(b) Homosexuals.
(c) Heterosexuals.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

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

5. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Societal mechanisms.
(d) Power discourse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

2. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

3. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?

4. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

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

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