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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 claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?
(a) Faith.
(b) Gender.
(c) Identity.
(d) Sex.

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

3. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Identity.
(c) Representation.
(d) Solidarity.

4. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Gender.
(b) Iden
(c) Feminism.
(d) Sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?

3. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

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

5. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

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