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

2. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) Sexual acts he heard in confession.
(b) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.
(c) Secrets told to him by friends.
(d) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.

3. What does the rule of immanence state?
(a) Both power and resistence are generated from withing the same power structure.
(b) The largest force of power will have the largest force of resistance.
(c) Resistance resides within the sphere of power.
(d) There is no disinterested scientific inquiry about sex. Power and knowledge are always connected.

4. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(b) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(c) It has undergone a recent revolution.
(d) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.

5. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Penal.
(b) Judicial.
(c) Theoretical elaboration.
(d) Medical intervention and clinical examination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?

2. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

3. Which of the rules regarding power and resistance is represented by the following example? In the nineteenth century the sex of a child was discussed between parents and educators or doctors. However, through modifications and shifts now the sexuality of a child is discussed between the child and a doctor with the sexuality of the parents called into question.

4. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

5. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?

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