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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. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Obscures reality.
(b) Societal mechanisms result.
(c) Foundationalism results.
(d) Feminist politics strengthen.

2. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?
(a) Sex.
(b) Identity.
(c) Incorporation.
(d) Melancholy of gender.

3. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Utopian revolution.
(b) Angry revolution.
(c) Masculine revolution.
(d) Poltiical revolution.

4. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Iden
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?

2. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?

3. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?

4. Butler wishes to show where and how which of the following operates?

5. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?

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