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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. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.
(b) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(c) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(d) All of the above.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It affirms that a thing is not permitted.
(c) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.
(d) It is an injunction of nonexistance, nonmanifestation, and silence.

3. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Sexuality became seen as pathology.
(b) Sex became a secular and state concern.
(c) Laws started to prosecute aldulterers.
(d) Confessions started to include sex.

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It has created a science of sexuality.
(b) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(c) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.
(d) It has created an understanding of our perversions.

5. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(b) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(c) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.
(d) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?

2. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

3. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

4. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

5. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?

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