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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 describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Science and religion.
(b) Destiny and fate.
(c) Determinism and free will.
(d) Society and self.

2. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?
(a) All bad.
(b) Never patriarchal.
(c) All patriarchal.
(d) Not all bad.

3. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Identity.
(c) Linguistic sexuality.
(d) Masculinism.

4. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
(a) Discreet.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Reality.
(d) Individuality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

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

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

4. How does Butler feel about the strategy of subversion?

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

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