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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. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-feminist.
(b) Post-structuralist.
(c) Post-masculinity.
(d) Post-political.

2. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Well-defined.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Not concrete.
(d) Not well-defined.

3. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

4. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Structuralists.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Utopians.
(d) Masculinists.

5. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Political.
(b) Woman.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Childish.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?

2. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?

3. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

4. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

5. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

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