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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 is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Criminal justice.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Pedagogy.

2. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?
(a) The format of the confessional is our best remedy to repression.
(b) Sexuality has been repressed by the general consent of the populace.
(c) Western societies did not manifest the movement of a power that was essentially repressive.
(d) Scientia sexualis is a more valid and evolved pursuit of truth than ars erotica.

3. What does Foucault say about resistance?
(a) There are points of it present everywhere in the power network.
(b) There is a single source of all resistence.
(c) It derives from a few heterogeneous principles.
(d) All of the above.

4. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?
(a) Mobile and nebulous.
(b) Spiral.
(c) Oppositional.
(d) Unidirectional.

5. Which statement would Foucault agree with?
(a) Where there is power, there is resistance.
(b) Power relationships depend on a multiplicity of points of resistance.
(c) Resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

2. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"

3. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

4. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

5. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

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