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

2. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?
(a) Metaphysics of constraint.
(b) Metaphysics of bodies.
(c) Metaphysics of substance.
(d) Metaphysics of determinism.

3. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?
(a) Bisexuality.
(b) Bestiality.
(c) Incest.
(d) Homosexuality.

4. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The phallus.
(b) The children of the earth.
(c) The earth.
(d) The vagina.

5. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?
(a) Psychoanalytic.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Bisexuality.
(d) Homosexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

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

3. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?

4. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?

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

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