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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. How does Butler feel about the strategy of subversion?
(a) Worried.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Angry.
(d) Excited.

2. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-structuralist.
(b) Post-political.
(c) Post-masculinity.
(d) Post-feminist.

3. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?
(a) Subversion.
(b) Bisexuality.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Psychoanalytic.

4. Which of the following did Foucault critique?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Gender identity.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Nationalism.

5. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?
(a) Social regulations.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

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

3. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

4. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?

5. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?

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