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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 III, Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
(a) Political identity.
(b) Childish identity.
(c) Feminine identiy.
(d) Societial-prescribed identity.

2. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Childish.
(b) Woman.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Political.

3. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Societal mechanisms.
(c) Entrapping assumptions.
(d) Feminist politics.

4. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Unified categories.
(d) Foundationalism.

5. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Destiny.
(b) Trust.
(c) Desire.
(d) Unity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

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

4. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

5. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

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