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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. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.
(b) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(c) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.
(d) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.

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

3. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(b) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.
(c) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(d) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.

4. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?
(a) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.
(b) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(c) Expunge sex from things that were said
(d) Control sex's free circulation in speech.

5. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(b) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(c) The brothel and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and mental hospital.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?

3. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. Which of the following is NOT a procedure by which the confession came to be constituted in scientific terms?

5. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

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