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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 describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Future vs. past.
(b) Biology vs. destiny.
(c) Faith vs. destiny.
(d) Science vs. religion.

2. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Heterosexuality.
(c) Homoeroticism.
(d) Masculinity.

3. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of gender trouble.
(b) Matrix of feminism.
(c) Matrix of feminist politics.
(d) Matrix of ntelligibility.

4. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Circular.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Bigoted.
(d) Fair.

5. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?
(a) True.
(b) False.
(c) Debatable.
(d) Misguided.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

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

5. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

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