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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 2, Method.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?
(a) There is a discourse of power and one running counter to it.
(b) None of the above.
(c) They are tactical elements or blocks operating in force relations.
(d) There can exist different and even contradictory discourses within the same strategy.

2. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?
(a) Constraint and power reduce one to silence.
(b) It is a power that constrains us.
(c) Truths demands to surface unless held down.
(d) Confession frees,

3. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Religion and sex.
(b) Truth and sex.
(c) Sex and morality.
(d) Secrets and shame.

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

5. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Rebellious and necessary.
(b) Religious and cleansing.
(c) Fundamental and natural.
(d) Regulated and polymorphous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

2. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?

3. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?

4. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

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