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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. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As having been repressed for centuries.
(b) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.
(c) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.
(d) As something not to be taken into account.

2. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?
(a) The deployment of sexuality reduced the importance of the deployment of alliance.
(b) All of the above.
(c) One is built upon rules and restrictions, and the other on mobile techniques of power.
(d) One deals with relationships and the other with bodily sensations.

3. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) Never has a society been more prudish.
(b) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.
(c) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.

4. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
(a) It has unified social strategies into the family unit.
(b) It has brought sexual discourse into the home.
(c) Secure sexuality under law and give alliance control over sexuality.
(d) It has created multiple perversions.

5. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?
(a) The study of sex as a biological and psychical condition with pathologies that could be normalized.
(b) The labeling as the perverse as the essence of a person.
(c) The realization of pleasure in psychiatric discourse.
(d) The identification of the need of mental help to those of uncommon sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

2. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?

3. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

4. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

5. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

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