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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 reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.
(b) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(c) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(d) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.

2. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Irruption of speech.
(c) Transgressing laws.
(d) Lifting of prohibitions.

3. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Regulated and polymorphous.
(b) Rebellious and necessary.
(c) Religious and cleansing.
(d) Fundamental and natural.

4. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?
(a) Assign a pathogenic value to non reproductive sex.
(b) Identify reproduction and sex as a matter of public importance.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Provide fiscal incitement or restrictions regarding the fertility of couples.

5. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?
(a) They are inscribed in power as an irreducible opposite.
(b) They are mobile and transitory.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They only exist in the strategic field of power relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

2. What does Foucault say about resistance?

3. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

4. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?

5. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

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