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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 thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Closed tightly.
(b) Closed loosly.
(c) Left open.
(d) Ignored.

2. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Totalizing.
(b) Generously.
(c) Reluctantly.
(d) Politely.

3. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(b) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(c) How sexality is a societal construction.
(d) How societal mechanisms create identity.

4. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) Disappearing.
(b) Ignored.
(c) More open.
(d) Less open.

5. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?
(a) A cause.
(b) A nuisance.
(c) An effect.
(d) A root.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lacan said that there was no direct access to which of the following?

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

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

4. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

5. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

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