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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 can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It was an analytical practice devoid of pleasure.
(b) It presupposed proximity.
(c) It required an intimate exchange of discourse.
(d) It entailed examination and insistent observation.
2. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.
(b) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(c) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(d) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
3. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(b) It has created a science of sexuality.
(c) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.
(d) It has created an understanding of our perversions.
4. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(b) Massive censorship.
(c) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(d) A general prudishness of language.
5. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.
(b) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down
(c) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(d) All of the above.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
2. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
3. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
4. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
5. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
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