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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 describes incorporation as leading to which of these?
(a) Masquerade.
(b) Sex.
(c) Identification.
(d) Gender.

2. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Social construction.
(b) Societal mechanism.
(c) Substance.
(d) Choice.

3. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Entrapping assumptions.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Societal mechanisms.
(d) Feminist politics.

4. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?
(a) A scapegoat.
(b) A savior.
(c) A villain.
(d) A hidden agent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

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

3. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?

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

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

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