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

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

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

4. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?
(a) Repression.
(b) Politics.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Anger.

5. Some sexuality is enhanced by which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Society.
(b) Illness.
(c) Law.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws?

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

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

4. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

5. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

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