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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 psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?
(a) The labeling as the perverse as the essence of a person.
(b) The study of sex as a biological and psychical condition with pathologies that could be normalized.
(c) The identification of the need of mental help to those of uncommon sexuality.
(d) The realization of pleasure in psychiatric discourse.

2. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?
(a) Maintaining social law vs proliferating itself and controlling populations.
(b) Making marital bonds paramount vs liberating sexuality.
(c) Control of the population vs expansion of perversions.
(d) Social law vs biological impulses that end in reproduction.

3. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?
(a) Undercut sexual regulation.
(b) Uphold the rules of alliance.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Liberate from repression.

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It was an analytical practice devoid of pleasure.
(b) It entailed examination and insistent observation.
(c) It required an intimate exchange of discourse.
(d) It presupposed proximity.

5. 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) All of the above.
(c) Acknowledge a technology of sex.
(d) Rid ourselves of a juridical and negative representation of power.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

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

4. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?

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

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