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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(b) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.
(c) Management and marginal control of sexuality.
(d) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.

2. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:
(a) All of the above.
(b) To anchor sexuality and give it support.
(c) Allow alliance and sexuality to effect each other.
(d) To be a social structure that restrains sexuality.

3. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?
(a) Provide fiscal incitement or restrictions regarding the fertility of couples.
(b) Assign a pathogenic value to non reproductive sex.
(c) Identify reproduction and sex as a matter of public importance.
(d) All of the above.

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was essential the state knew of it and the use made of it.
(b) Campaigns tried to conform it into a concerted economic and political behavior.
(c) It was uniformly negated by existing power mechanisms.
(d) It was an object of analysis and target of intervention.

5. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(b) In the mental institute.
(c) Through the confession.
(d) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.

Short Answer Questions

1. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?

2. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

3. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?

4. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

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

(see the answer key)

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