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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, ,Chapter 1, Objective.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?
(a) None of the above.
(b) It is not affected by repression.
(c) It finds ways to work through existing channels of power.
(d) It is created by prohibition.

2. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Rid ourselves of a juridical and negative representation of power.
(c) Acknowledge a technology of sex.
(d) Cease to conceive of power as law, prohibition, liberty, and sovereignty.

3. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(b) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(c) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(d) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.

4. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(b) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.
(c) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(d) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.

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 is the "repressive hypothesis?"

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

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

4. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

5. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

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