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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 reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(b) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.
(c) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(d) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.

2. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Children.
(b) Extra-marital sex.
(c) Married couples.
(d) Perversions.

3. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?
(a) It is a vanishing ritual in western society.
(b) It is fundamenal human nature.
(c) The expression of truth produces intrinsic modifications in the confessor.
(d) It creates truth in lieu of simply expressing it.

4. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?
(a) In the medical society.
(b) In the uneducated working class.
(c) In the economically priviledged and politically dominant classes.
(d) In the middle class.

5. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(b) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(c) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.
(d) It was driven underground and become occult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?

2. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

3. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

5. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

(see the answer key)

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