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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 of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.
(b) A norm of sexual development was defined.
(c) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.
(d) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.

2. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.
(b) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(c) It denounces the powers it exercises.
(d) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.

3. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?
(a) Unidirectional.
(b) Mobile and nebulous.
(c) Spiral.
(d) Oppositional.

4. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?
(a) Because he was part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.
(b) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.
(c) Because he represented the negative effects of repression.
(d) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.

5. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(b) It has undergone a recent revolution.
(c) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(d) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

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

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