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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Irigaray.
(c) Beauvoir.
(d) Lacan.

3. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Sex.
(b) Faith.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Motherhood.

4. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of women for women.
(b) The sexual preference of women for men.
(c) The sexual preference of men for men.
(d) The sexual preference of men for women.

5. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?
(a) Identity.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Masquerade.
(d) Gender.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?

2. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?

3. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

4. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

5. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

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