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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. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?
(a) True.
(b) Misguided.
(c) False.
(d) Debatable.

2. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Incoherent.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Intelligible.
(d) Constructed.

3. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Gender identification.
(c) Unconscious identification.
(d) Maternal identification.

4. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?
(a) Subversion.
(b) Bisexuality.
(c) Psychoanalytic.
(d) Homosexuality.

5. Butler asks if what kind of human can exist?
(a) Gendered.
(b) Post-gendered.
(c) Transgendered.
(d) Pre-gendered.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?

2. Which of the following did Foucault critique?

3. The theory of semiotic aspects of language seems to be a direct critique of which theorist?

4. Butler says that Rubin's story relies too much on which of the following?

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

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