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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. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Irigaray.
(c) Beauvoir.
(d) Lacan.

2. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Increases identity.
(b) Undermines identity.
(c) Supports feminist politics.
(d) Marginilizes people.

3. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?
(a) Identity.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Gender.
(d) Masquerade.

4. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Feminine desire.
(c) Masculine desire.
(d) Homoeroticism.

5. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?
(a) Bestiality.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Bisexuality.
(d) Incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

2. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

4. Kristeva views female homosexuality as which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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