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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 3, Domain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
(a) Any sexual practice that couldn't result in procreation.
(b) Sexual activities outside matrimony.
(c) Sexual practices that don't include one member of each gender.
(d) Any sexual practice not condoned by law.

2. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) Classification of perversions.
(b) Medicalization of the sexually peculiar.
(c) Analysis of sexuality.
(d) Prohibition.

3. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?
(a) It is created by prohibition.
(b) It finds ways to work through existing channels of power.
(c) It is not affected by repression.
(d) None of the above.

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?
(a) It is an injunction of nonexistance, nonmanifestation, and silence.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.
(d) It affirms that a thing is not permitted.

5. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(b) They are polarized.
(c) They turn against each other.
(d) They cancel each other out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

2. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?

3. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

4. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

5. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?

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