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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 is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They are polarized.
(b) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(c) They cancel each other out.
(d) They turn against each other.

2. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It entailed examination and insistent observation.
(b) It presupposed proximity.
(c) It was an analytical practice devoid of pleasure.
(d) It required an intimate exchange of discourse.

3. What does Foucault NOT say is a derivative basis of power?
(a) Political authority.
(b) Families.
(c) Machinery of production.
(d) All of the above.

4. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?
(a) They only exist in the strategic field of power relations.
(b) All of the above.
(c) They are mobile and transitory.
(d) They are inscribed in power as an irreducible opposite.

5. When sexuality came to demand the surveillance of the population where did it expand?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Demography.
(c) Pedagogy.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?

2. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

3. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

4. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?

5. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

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