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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 was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Married couples.
(b) Extra-marital sex.
(c) Perversions.
(d) Children.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It is an injunction of nonexistance, nonmanifestation, and silence.
(c) It affirms that a thing is not permitted.
(d) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.

3. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?
(a) The domination of authority figures and the repression of sexual practice.
(b) Perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.
(c) The effective practice of removing sexual impetus.
(d) Anxiety and domination.

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. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?
(a) Assign a pathogenic value to non reproductive sex.
(b) Provide fiscal incitement or restrictions regarding the fertility of couples.
(c) Identify reproduction and sex as a matter of public importance.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?

3. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?

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

5. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

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