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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 is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?
(b) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?
(c) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(d) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?

2. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?
(a) It is poor in resources, sparing in it's methods, and monotonous in tactics.
(b) It is dependent on the biological consequences of disobedience.
(c) It is juridical in nature, centered on nothing more than the statement of law.
(d) It only has the power to say no and to produce limits.

3. 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.

4. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(b) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(c) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(d) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.

5. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(b) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(c) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?

2. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

3. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

4. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?

5. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

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