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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. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Constraint.
(d) Bodies.

2. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Elation.
(d) Melancholy.

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

4. Herculine argues that the univocal idea of sex serves which of the following?
(a) Social regulations.
(b) Linguistic laws.
(c) Cultural laws.
(d) Liberal views.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?

3. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

4. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?

5. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?

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