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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Right of Death and Power Over Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?
(a) Despite attempts to change or repress it, sexuality will continually return to a natural and common state.
(b) Under the influence of a power structure, people will accept the regularity of the rules.
(c) Power lays down the rules for sexuality, defining the licit and the illicit and is maintained through language.
(d) Power is most effective when channeled through previously accepted avenues.

2. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(b) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(c) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(d) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.

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

4. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?
(a) It never ceased to hide the thing it was talking about.
(b) It was unaccepted by the general population.
(c) It was ineffective at causing change.
(d) It was closely tied to the ends needed by governmental needs.

5. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(b) The brothel and mental hospital.
(c) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and the lower class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

2. What does Foucault claim was the sovereign power from Roman times?

3. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?

4. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

5. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?

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