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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 is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(b) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.
(c) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.
(d) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
2. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?
(a) It is dependent on the biological consequences of disobedience.
(b) It is juridical in nature, centered on nothing more than the statement of law.
(c) It only has the power to say no and to produce limits.
(d) It is poor in resources, sparing in it's methods, and monotonous in tactics.
3. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?
(a) All of the above.
(b) An element of power capable of serving as a tool for the most varied strategies.
(c) A transfer point for relations of power between people.
(d) An element of power relations endowed with the greatest instrumentality.
4. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?
(a) Social law vs biological impulses that end in reproduction.
(b) Making marital bonds paramount vs liberating sexuality.
(c) Control of the population vs expansion of perversions.
(d) Maintaining social law vs proliferating itself and controlling populations.
5. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?
(a) It gives us freedom in the form of resistance.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It simplifies the mechanics of power.
(d) It is a common perception regarding power in various mechanisms.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was Charcot?
2. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
3. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
4. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
5. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?
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