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

2. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?
(a) Gender.
(b) Sex.
(c) Identity.
(d) Melancholia.

3. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Pregenital.
(b) Postgenital.
(c) Postfeminist.
(d) Prefeminist.

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

5. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Representation.
(b) Identity.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?

2. Butler states that women must take which approach?

3. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

4. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?

5. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?

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