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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. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(b) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.
(c) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.
(d) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.

2. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?
(a) In the uneducated working class.
(b) In the economically priviledged and politically dominant classes.
(c) In the medical society.
(d) In the middle class.

3. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(b) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(c) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(d) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.

4. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?
(a) Medicine.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Family and love relationships.
(d) Justice and solem rites.

5. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(b) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

3. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?

4. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?

5. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

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