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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 can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?
(a) It was unified and focused.
(b) They were multi faceted and diverse.
(c) It was primarily a legal and judicial.
(d) It's object was prohibition.

2. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?
(a) Targets for ventures into knowledge that correspond to four strategies.
(b) Pathologies recognized and treated in the nineteenth century.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Tactical materializations of psychiatric power.

3. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?
(a) Uphold the rules of alliance.
(b) Liberate from repression.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Undercut sexual regulation.

4. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(b) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(c) The brothel and mental hospital.
(d) The brothel and the lower class.

5. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?
(a) One is built upon rules and restrictions, and the other on mobile techniques of power.
(b) The deployment of sexuality reduced the importance of the deployment of alliance.
(c) One deals with relationships and the other with bodily sensations.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

2. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?

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

4. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

5. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

(see the answer key)

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