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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 says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Feminists.
(d) Women.

2. Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following?
(a) Extreme sexuality.
(b) Secondary sexuality.
(c) Lack of sexuality.
(d) Non-binary sexuality.

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Post-feminist politics.
(b) Feminine identity.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Masculine identity.

4. Which adjective best describes Lacan's view of language?
(a) Misleading.
(b) Controlling.
(c) Tolerant.
(d) Unnecessary.

5. Butler describes repression of bisexuality as a locus of which of the following?
(a) Incest.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Bisexuality.
(d) Prohibition.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?

3. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?

4. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?

5. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?

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