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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 is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(b) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(c) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(d) There was a sensualization of power.

2. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?
(a) It was primarily a legal and judicial.
(b) It was unified and focused.
(c) They were multi faceted and diverse.
(d) It's object was prohibition.

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

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

5. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?
(a) The battle against repression.
(b) Redemption from perceived sin.
(c) Complex power mechanisms.
(d) The throwing off of unilateral power structures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

2. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?

3. What is the deployment of alliance?

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

5. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?

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