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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. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?
(a) The effective practice of removing sexual impetus.
(b) Anxiety and domination.
(c) The domination of authority figures and the repression of sexual practice.
(d) Perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.

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

3. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?
(a) Sex education in recognized institutions for children.
(b) The assertion that children engage in sexual activity, and that it is dangerous.
(c) The system of medical pathologies describing sexual activity in children.
(d) The control of sexuality in children by parents and teachers.

4. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(b) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(c) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.

5. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(b) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(c) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(d) It is the Western discovery of new vices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?

2. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

3. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?

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

5. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

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