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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. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Representation.
(d) Identity.

2. Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following?
(a) Lack of sexuality.
(b) Secondary sexuality.
(c) Extreme sexuality.
(d) Non-binary sexuality.

3. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?
(a) An individual who wants to appear mainstream.
(b) A party where people hide their identities.
(c) An individual with loose morals.
(d) An individual without an identity.

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

5. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Antifoundationalist.
(b) Foundationalist.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Masculine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

4. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?

5. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?

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