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

2. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?
(a) One is built upon rules and restrictions, and the other on mobile techniques of power.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The deployment of sexuality reduced the importance of the deployment of alliance.
(d) One deals with relationships and the other with bodily sensations.

3. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:
(a) To be a social structure that restrains sexuality.
(b) Allow alliance and sexuality to effect each other.
(c) To anchor sexuality and give it support.
(d) All of the above.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?

2. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

3. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?

5. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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