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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 can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(b) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(c) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(d) It is the Western discovery of new vices.

2. 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) It affirms that a thing is not permitted.
(c) All of the above.
(d) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.

3. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The law.
(b) The church.
(c) The government.
(d) Medicine.

4. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
(a) It has unified social strategies into the family unit.
(b) It has brought sexual discourse into the home.
(c) It has created multiple perversions.
(d) Secure sexuality under law and give alliance control over sexuality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

2. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?

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

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

5. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

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