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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 is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?
(a) Power is most effective when channeled through previously accepted avenues.
(b) Under the influence of a power structure, people will accept the regularity of the rules.
(c) Power lays down the rules for sexuality, defining the licit and the illicit and is maintained through language.
(d) Despite attempts to change or repress it, sexuality will continually return to a natural and common state.

2. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) Medicine.
(b) The church.
(c) The law.
(d) The government.

3. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) An attempt to gain control of sexuality.
(b) A struggle against sexuality.
(c) The production of sexuality.
(d) An attempt to mask the more indiscreet, conspicuous and intractable aspects of sexuality.

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

5. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?
(a) It is an attempt to purge unwanted desires.
(b) It is a multiplicity of discourses produced by a many mechanisms and institutions.
(c) It is constrained to the educated and powerful population.
(d) It is symptomatic of repression.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?

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

3. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault use to describe sexuality?

5. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?

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