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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 2, Method.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(b) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(c) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(d) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.

2. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It presupposed proximity.
(b) It was an analytical practice devoid of pleasure.
(c) It entailed examination and insistent observation.
(d) It required an intimate exchange of discourse.

3. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(b) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.
(c) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(d) It denounces the powers it exercises.

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

5. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Transgressing laws.
(b) Lifting of prohibitions.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Irruption of speech.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?

3. What do the rules of continual variations state?

4. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

5. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

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