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

2. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Poltiical revolution.
(b) Masculine revolution.
(c) Angry revolution.
(d) Utopian revolution.

3. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?
(a) Allowing women to have an education.
(b) Allowing incest.
(c) Forbidding women to breastfeed.
(d) Forbidding incest.

4. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Determinism.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Constraint.
(d) Bodies.

5. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Psychoanalytic.
(d) Bisexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?

2. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

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

4. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?

5. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?

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