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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. Who was Charcot?
(a) The psychiatrist who first started speaking overtly about sex in his work.
(b) A researcher of sexuality in the late-1800s.
(c) A man who had his wife internned for life in a mental hospital for expressing pleasure.
(d) A simple minded farm hand taken to a mental hostpital for expressing sexuality.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?
(a) Despite attempts to change or repress it, sexuality will continually return to a natural and common state.
(b) Power is most effective when channeled through previously accepted avenues.
(c) Under the influence of a power structure, people will accept the regularity of the rules.
(d) Power lays down the rules for sexuality, defining the licit and the illicit and is maintained through language.

3. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As something not to be taken into account.
(b) As having been repressed for centuries.
(c) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.
(d) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.

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

5. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.
(b) Never has a society been more prudish.
(c) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.
(d) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements would Foucault use to describe sexuality?

2. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

3. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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

5. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

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