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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 VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Some sexuality is enhanced by which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Illness.
(b) Society.
(c) Law.
(d) Feminism.

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

4. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Gender.
(b) Identity.
(c) Heterosexuality.
(d) Sex.

5. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of constraint.
(b) Lack of societal mechanism.
(c) Lack of men.
(d) Lack of clarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

2. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?

3. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?

4. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

5. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

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