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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 insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Political action.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Education.

2. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?
(a) Neo-Lacanian.
(b) Kristevan.
(c) Butlerian.
(d) Lacanian.

3. Kristeva seems to understand the semiotic in what kinds of terms?
(a) Political.
(b) Psychoanalytic.
(c) Psychotic.
(d) Feminist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?

2. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?

3. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?

4. What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws?

5. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?

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