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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. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the cycle of prohibition?
(a) The threat of a punishment that is the supression of sex.
(b) To deal with sex, power employs nothing more than a law of prohibition.
(c) Power constrains sex only through a taboo that plays on the alternative between two nonexistences.
(d) All of the above.

2. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(b) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.
(c) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.
(d) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.

3. 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) All of the above.
(c) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(d) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.

4. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(b) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(c) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.
(d) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.

5. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?
(a) Western societies did not manifest the movement of a power that was essentially repressive.
(b) Scientia sexualis is a more valid and evolved pursuit of truth than ars erotica.
(c) Sexuality has been repressed by the general consent of the populace.
(d) The format of the confessional is our best remedy to repression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?

3. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

5. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?

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