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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 claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Entrapping assumptions.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Societal mechanisms.
(d) Feminist politics.

2. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?
(a) Unconscious identification.
(b) Gender identification.
(c) Maternal identification.
(d) Melancholia.

3. What does non-reciprocity relate to?
(a) Language.
(b) Political oppression.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Cultural laws.

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

5. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Identity.
(c) Domination.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?

4. Butler states that women must take which approach?

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

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