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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 does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?
(a) Discourse is multifaceted form of power.
(b) Every power manifests itself as new discourse.
(c) Discourse joins power and knowledge together, and its tactics are variable and changing.
(d) Knowledge generates discourse, which manifests power.

2. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?
(a) Immoral behavior in other areas would cause specific sexual aberrations.
(b) Specific alternate sexualities were caused by a wide variety of stimuli over an extended period of time.
(c) It is the principle of sex as the cause of any and everything.
(d) Alternate sexualities were created by the society that governed the people.

3. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.
(b) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(c) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.
(d) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.

4. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Justice and solem rites.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Family and love relationships.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the three successive stages by which sexuality penetrated the population at large?
(a) The movement for the "moralization of the poorer classes."
(b) The rise of the importance of confession for a moral existence.
(c) Birth control.
(d) Juridical and medical control of perversions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?

2. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

3. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?

4. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

5. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?

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