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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, ,Chapter 1, Objective.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The government.
(b) The law.
(c) The church.
(d) Medicine.

2. What element of the confession has opened the pathway to explore existing domains?
(a) Saying how the act being confessed was done.
(b) Saying what was done.
(c) The reconstruction of all individual pleasures.
(d) Having moral impetus to truthfulness.

3. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(b) Why are we still repressed?
(c) What is the path out of repression?
(d) How did we come to be repressed?

4. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?
(a) All of the above.
(b) By presenting themselves as a way of introducing order in the midst of other powers.
(c) It identified its will with the will of the law, acting through mechanisms of interdiction and sanction.
(d) By presenting themselves as agencies of regulation, arbitration and demarcation; formulated in terms of law.

5. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(b) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.
(c) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(d) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?

2. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

3. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

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

5. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?

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