Quadratic subfields of a multiquadratic extension ($L=K({\prod }_{i\in I}{x}_i)$)

In characteristic different from two, a field generated by finitely many nonzero square roots is the splitting field of a collection of separable quadratic polynomials. Its Galois group embeds into the sign-vector group $(\mathbb{Z}/2{)}^n$. Every index-two subgroup is the kernel of a nontrivial sign character. Coordinate sign characters span the dual of this subgroup of $(\mathbb{Z}/2{)}^n$, by extending a linear functional to the ambient vector space. A product of the corresponding roots transforms by that character and generates precisely the quadratic fixed field.