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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 wishes to show where and how which of the following operates?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Hommosexuality.
(c) Bestiality.
(d) Incest.

2. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from the body.
(b) Disconnected from feminism.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from feminist politics.

3. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The vagina.
(b) The children of the earth.
(c) The phallus.
(d) The earth.

4. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Chosen.
(b) Caused.
(c) Identified.
(d) Constructed.

5. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Linguistic absence.
(b) Gender absence.
(c) Absence of construction.
(d) Absence of constraint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term does Butler use to describe Kristeva's theory?

2. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

3. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

4. What type of media did Herculine write?

5. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?

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