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

2. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?
(a) Targets for ventures into knowledge that correspond to four strategies.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Pathologies recognized and treated in the nineteenth century.
(d) Tactical materializations of psychiatric power.

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

4. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?
(a) Cease to conceive of power as law, prohibition, liberty, and sovereignty.
(b) Acknowledge a technology of sex.
(c) Rid ourselves of a juridical and negative representation of power.
(d) All of the above.

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault use to describe sexuality?
(a) A social and historical construct that creates a network which links knowledge and power.
(b) A furtive reality difficult to grasp and based in biology.
(c) A natural impulse that power tries to hold in check.
(d) An obscure domain that knowledge tries to uncover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

2. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:

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

4. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

5. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?

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