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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section II, Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?
(a) Anger.
(b) Repression.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Politics.

2. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?
(a) Domination.
(b) Identity.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Acceptance.

3. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Language.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Utopian society.

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

5. Who does Butler believe mistakenly holds the idea of a separation between sex and gender?
(a) Rubin.
(b) Marcuse.
(c) Riviere.
(d) Lacan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?

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

3. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

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

5. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

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