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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 suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?
(a) Bisexuality.
(b) Incest.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Bestiality.

2. Butler describes repression of bisexuality as a locus of which of the following?
(a) Incest.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) Bisexuality.
(d) Subversion.

3. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of gender trouble.
(b) Matrix of ntelligibility.
(c) Matrix of feminism.
(d) Matrix of feminist politics.

4. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Utopians.
(c) Structuralists.
(d) Feminists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?

2. Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following?

3. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?

4. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

5. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?

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