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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section III, Monique Wittig, Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Melancholy of gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Incorporation.

3. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Gender.
(b) Incest.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Sexuality.

4. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?
(a) Identity.
(b) Hopelessness.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) Faith.

5. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Truth.
(c) Fame.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

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

4. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?

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

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