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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. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Aesexuals.
(b) Homosexuals.
(c) Heterosexuals.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

2. Which of the following did Foucault critique?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Gender identity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Nationalism.

3. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Women.
(d) Feminists.

4. Butler wishes to show where and how which of the following operates?
(a) Hommosexuality.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Incest.
(d) Bestiality.

5. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) Social forces.
(c) Anger.
(d) Subversion.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?

4. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

5. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?

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