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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Introduction and Section I, Structuralism's Critical Exchange.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is true, according to Foucault?
(a) Requirements precede identity.
(b) Entrapping assumptions are necessary.
(c) Societal mechanisms are more important than identity.
(d) Society does not impact identity.

2. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Domination.
(d) Identity.

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

4. Without recourse to some idea of power, which does Butler believe cannot be achieved?
(a) Society.
(b) Liberation.
(c) Power discourse.
(d) Feminism.

5. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?
(a) A scapegoat.
(b) A villain.
(c) A savior.
(d) A hidden agent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

2. Butler describes which of these as not being inevitable?

3. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?

4. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

5. Which of the following terms does Butler use to describe oppression?

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