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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. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Hermaphrodites.
(b) Aesexuals.
(c) Homosexuals.
(d) Heterosexuals.
2. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Prefeminist.
(b) Pregenital.
(c) Postfeminist.
(d) Postgenital.
3. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Societal mechanisms.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Entrapping assumptions.
(d) Foundationalism.
4. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Politics.
(d) Women.
5. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of women for women.
(b) The sexual preference of women for men.
(c) The sexual preference of men for women.
(d) The sexual preference of men for men.
Short Answer Questions
1. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?
2. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
3. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
4. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
5. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
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