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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. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Feminine identity.
(c) Masculine identity.
(d) Post-feminist politics.

2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(b) How sexality is a societal construction.
(c) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(d) How gender asymmetry is generated.

3. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Increases identity.
(b) Undermines identity.
(c) Supports feminist politics.
(d) Marginilizes people.

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

5. Without recourse to some idea of power, which does Butler believe cannot be achieved?
(a) Power discourse.
(b) Liberation.
(c) Society.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?

2. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

3. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?

4. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?

5. What is homoeroticism?

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