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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 the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(b) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?
(c) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?
(d) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?

2. Which of the following is NOT a procedure by which the confession came to be constituted in scientific terms?
(a) Medicalization of the effects of confession.
(b) The need of interpretation.
(c) Moral exhortation.
(d) Clinical codification.

3. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"
(a) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.
(b) Speaking gives the illusion of experience and knowledge.
(c) Speaking is an effective way to repression.
(d) Speaking about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.

4. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?
(a) The realization of pleasure in psychiatric discourse.
(b) The labeling as the perverse as the essence of a person.
(c) The study of sex as a biological and psychical condition with pathologies that could be normalized.
(d) The identification of the need of mental help to those of uncommon sexuality.

5. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) The theory that discussion of repressed emotions is the best way to experience freedom from them.
(b) The historical theory that religious institutions controlled masses by assigning shame to sexuality.
(c) The theory that the more you try to prohibit something the more it self propagates.
(d) The historical theory that sexuality was repressed and we are still trying to overcome it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?

2. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

3. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

4. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?

5. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?

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