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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. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?
(a) The assertion that children engage in sexual activity, and that it is dangerous.
(b) The control of sexuality in children by parents and teachers.
(c) The system of medical pathologies describing sexual activity in children.
(d) Sex education in recognized institutions for children.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
(b) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.
(c) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(d) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.

3. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?
(a) Governments exercise power through law, and the law is the seat of their power.
(b) The law is one of many tools used by governmental powers.
(c) The law constrains the power of the governments.
(d) The power mechanisms of law and government constantly clash are are kept concealed.

4. Who was Charcot?
(a) A man who had his wife internned for life in a mental hospital for expressing pleasure.
(b) A researcher of sexuality in the late-1800s.
(c) The psychiatrist who first started speaking overtly about sex in his work.
(d) A simple minded farm hand taken to a mental hostpital for expressing sexuality.

5. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
(b) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(c) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.
(d) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

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

3. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?

4. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

5. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

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