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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. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Gender.
(c) Incorporation.
(d) Identification.

2. Butler suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?
(a) Children.
(b) Heterosexuals.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

3. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?
(a) Feminine desire.
(b) Masculine desire.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Homoeroticism.

4. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Faith.
(b) Sex.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Feminism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is homoeroticism?

3. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

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

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

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