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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section V, Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Marginilizes people.
(b) Undermines identity.
(c) Supports feminist politics.
(d) Increases identity.

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

3. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Political action.
(b) Education.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Foundationalism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?

2. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

3. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

4. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

5. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

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