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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. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?
(a) There can exist different and even contradictory discourses within the same strategy.
(b) They are tactical elements or blocks operating in force relations.
(c) None of the above.
(d) There is a discourse of power and one running counter to it.

2. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?
(a) Inbreeding and lower moral fiber.
(b) Financial difficulty and lack of education.
(c) Idleness and obligation to preserve a healthy line of descent.
(d) Knowledge without resource.

3. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?
(a) What strategy they derive from.
(b) What ideology they represent.
(c) What moral divisions they accompany.
(d) What effects of power and knowledge they ensure.

4. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?
(a) None of the above.
(b) It channeled many of the previously accepted forms of sexuality into new perversions.
(c) It intensified the situation, then involved outstide help like doctors which caused discourse to increase.
(d) It limited the discussion of sexuality in the family unit and so drove it to outside relations like doctors.

5. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.
(b) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(c) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(d) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?

2. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"

3. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?

4. Which of the rules regarding power and resistance is represented by the following example? In the nineteenth century the sex of a child was discussed between parents and educators or doctors. However, through modifications and shifts now the sexuality of a child is discussed between the child and a doctor with the sexuality of the parents called into question.

5. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?

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