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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, From Parody to Politics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?
(a) Difficulties.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Identity.
(d) Revolution.

2. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?
(a) Theorists.
(b) Women.
(c) Masculinists.
(d) Feminists.

3. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Compulsory heterosexuality.
(b) Forced homosexuality.
(c) Cumpulsory homosexuality.
(d) Voluntary heterosexuality.

4. Butler claims that bodies are not what kind of boundaries?
(a) Political.
(b) Infallible.
(c) Variable.
(d) Concrete.

5. What kind of gender norms make certain social forms possible and others impossible, according to Butler?
(a) Solidified.
(b) Infallible.
(c) Variable.
(d) Concrete.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, how does Wittig apply the idea of fictive sex?

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

3. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?

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

5. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?

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