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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. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?
(a) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.
(b) Generated perversions.
(c) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.
(d) Regulation helped spread the sexual discourse and hence sexuality.

2. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?
(a) The health and well being of the body.
(b) The political influence.
(c) The welfare of future generations.
(d) The soul.

3. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?
(a) Because the form of the power utilized was unique to sexuality.
(b) To prove that the power requisite for complete repression was present but not utilized.
(c) Our accepted model of power mechanisms is too simple and unidimensional.
(d) All of the above.

4. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have established various points of implantation for sex.
(b) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(c) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.
(d) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.

5. If one tries to define the history of sexuality by mechanisms of repression, there are two "ruptures" that Foucault identifies and says warrants further investigation. Which of the following is NOT either a description of one of the ruptures or the time period it took place?
(a) The seventeenth century.
(b) The nineteenth century.
(c) The loosening of the mechanism of repression.
(d) The advent of prohibitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "discursive fact?"

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

3. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

4. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?

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

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