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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?
(a) The information generated by one would cause advances in the other.
(b) Their theories were looked at with skepticism by the general public.
(c) There was no exchange between the two.
(d) They operated in similar fashions.

2. What does Foucault say that the science of sex achieved in the nineteenth century?
(a) Laying the groundwork for a meticulous scientific course of study.
(b) The obscuration of truth about sex.
(c) The study of sex in a detached manner.
(d) The direct confrontation of a social taboo.

3. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(b) There was a sensualization of power.
(c) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(d) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.

4. If one tries to define the history of sexuality by mechanisms of repression, there are two "ruptures" that Foucault identifies and says warrants further investigation. Which of the following is NOT either a description of one of the ruptures or the time period it took place?
(a) The loosening of the mechanism of repression.
(b) The nineteenth century.
(c) The advent of prohibitions.
(d) The seventeenth century.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the three successive stages by which sexuality penetrated the population at large?
(a) Juridical and medical control of perversions.
(b) The movement for the "moralization of the poorer classes."
(c) The rise of the importance of confession for a moral existence.
(d) Birth control.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

2. Why are the chronological reminders of techniques and time line of the deployment of sexuality important to the theory laid out by Foucault?

3. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?

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

5. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?

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