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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. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?
(a) It was created by the bourgeois to control the working class.
(b) It reached all classes at the same time.
(c) It spread through the different mechanisms at different class levels.
(d) It was homogeneous.

2. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(b) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(c) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(d) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.

3. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?
(a) The confession.
(b) Scientia sexualis.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Publication.

4. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(b) That it is a function of our over analytical society.
(c) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(d) That is was created as a way to centralize power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

2. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

3. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?

4. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

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