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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 does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Masculine politics.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Conservative politics.
(d) Post-feminist politics.

2. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Societal mechanisms result.
(b) Obscures reality.
(c) Feminist politics strengthen.
(d) Foundationalism results.

3. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Riviere.
(c) Marcuse.
(d) Rubin.

4. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Society and self.
(b) Science and religion.
(c) Destiny and fate.
(d) Determinism and free will.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

2. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

3. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?

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

5. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?

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