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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 3, Domain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(b) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(c) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(d) There was a sensualization of power.

2. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) The revolution was not against the laws (the seat of power) but against those that overstepped the legal framework. Thus power and law were still on the same side.
(b) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.
(c) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(d) All of the above.

3. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?
(a) The notion that women's bodies are hightly sexual and was predisposed to medical pathology.
(b) The notion that the women's bodies are extreme manifestations of male counterparts.
(c) The discovery that women's bodies created more emotional reaction than male bodies.
(d) The identification of the female body as being at the root of female mental instability.

4. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They are polarized.
(b) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(c) They turn against each other.
(d) They cancel each other out.

5. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) It set up a barrier against sexuality that was too rigid and provoked a backlash.
(b) It was successful in making the topic of sexuality taboo.
(c) It created a multiplication of singular sexualities and pleasure power spirals.
(d) It set practicable boundaries for sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?

2. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?

3. Who was Charcot?

4. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

5. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?

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