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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, Section V, Reformulating Prohibition as Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A reason.
(b) A cause.
(c) A premise.
(d) An excuse.

2. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Forced homosexuality.
(b) Compulsory heterosexuality.
(c) Voluntary heterosexuality.
(d) Cumpulsory homosexuality.

3. According to Butler, which lies outside of language and symbolism?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) Subvesion.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Bisexuality.

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

5. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Constructed.
(b) Identified.
(c) Caused.
(d) Chosen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?

2. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

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

4. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

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

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