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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. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Constraint.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Determinism.

2. 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 destiny.
(b) Disconnected from feminism.
(c) Disconnected from the body.
(d) Disconnected from feminist politics.

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

4. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Post-feminist politics.
(b) Conservative politics.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Masculine politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?

2. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?

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

4. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?

5. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?

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