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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 does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(b) A general prudishness of language.
(c) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(d) Massive censorship.

2. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Repression-expression-liberation.
(b) Shame-confession-redemption.
(c) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(d) Expression-tolerance-integration

3. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?
(a) To prove that the power requisite for complete repression was present but not utilized.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Our accepted model of power mechanisms is too simple and unidimensional.
(d) Because the form of the power utilized was unique to sexuality.

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

5. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?
(a) The law is one of many tools used by governmental powers.
(b) The power mechanisms of law and government constantly clash are are kept concealed.
(c) Governments exercise power through law, and the law is the seat of their power.
(d) The law constrains the power of the governments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?

2. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?

3. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?

4. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?

5. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?

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