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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 describes incorporation as leading to which of these?
(a) Gender.
(b) Identification.
(c) Sex.
(d) Masquerade.

2. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Judge.
(b) Oppress.
(c) Support.
(d) Relieve.

3. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Iden
(b) Feminism.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

4. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminism.
(b) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from the body.

5. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Science vs. religion.
(b) Faith vs. destiny.
(c) Future vs. past.
(d) Biology vs. destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?

2. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

3. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

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

5. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?

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