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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. 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) The effective practice of removing sexual impetus.
(c) Perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.
(d) Anxiety and domination.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the cycle of prohibition?
(a) To deal with sex, power employs nothing more than a law of prohibition.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The threat of a punishment that is the supression of sex.
(d) Power constrains sex only through a taboo that plays on the alternative between two nonexistences.

3. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?
(a) The family unit.
(b) Morality.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Religion.

4. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.
(b) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.
(c) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.
(d) The expression of morally repressed desires.

5. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.
(c) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(d) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the negative relation of power and sexuality?

3. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?

4. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

5. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

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