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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 major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?
(a) Perversions were defined and recognized.
(b) The biological study of sexuality discovered hormones and thus explained perversions medically.
(c) The population openly accepted sexual discourse as necessary for a healthy sexuality.
(d) The focus on sexuality went from everlasting punishment after death to a medical problem of illness in life.

2. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Propagation of knowledge.
(b) Liberation from repression.
(c) Instances of discursive production.
(d) Production of power.

3. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?
(a) It has been a chronicle of increasing repression.
(b) It has become more healthy and balanced.
(c) It has moved from the immoral to the moral.
(d) Sexuality has thrived in predefined relationships.

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the negative relation of power and sexuality?
(a) Sexuality is repressed by power.
(b) Power and sexuality are mutually exclusive.
(c) The effects of power take the form of limit and lack.
(d) All of the above.

5. What do the rules of continual variations state?
(a) Power manifests itself in matrices of transformations, and not static relationships.
(b) Reistance arises from changing sources even when it remains constant.
(c) There are an unlimited number of possible power relationships.
(d) Each representation of power is unique and varying from those surrounding it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement would Foucault agree with?

2. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

3. Which of the following would Foucault agree what the purpose for which the deployment of sexuality was first established.

4. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

(see the answer key)

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