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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. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Gender.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Incest.

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

3. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Liberation.

4. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Choice.
(b) Substance.
(c) Societal mechanism.
(d) Social construction.

5. Butler wishes to show where and how which of the following operates?
(a) Bestiality.
(b) Hommosexuality.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lacan viewed cultural meaning's need for relating women to the maternal to be which of the following?

2. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?

3. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?

4. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

5. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?

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