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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. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?
(a) A hidden agent.
(b) A savior.
(c) A villain.
(d) A scapegoat.

2. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Liberation.
(c) Societal mechanisms.
(d) Power discourse.

3. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of women for women.
(b) The sexual preference of men for women.
(c) The sexual preference of women for men.
(d) The sexual preference of men for men.

4. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Constraints.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Constructions.
(d) Sexes.

5. Heterosexism in a masquerade is sustained by which of the following, as Butler describes?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Reality.
(c) Faith.
(d) Appearances.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

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

3. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?

4. To Kristeva, poetry helps express the dependence of who?

5. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?

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