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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 statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have established various points of implantation for sex.
(b) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.
(c) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.
(d) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.

2. Which of the following is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?
(b) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?
(c) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(d) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?

3. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?
(a) The throwing off of unilateral power structures.
(b) The battle against repression.
(c) Redemption from perceived sin.
(d) Complex power mechanisms.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They are the exclusive domain of adults.
(b) They are articulated around power relations.
(c) They are hierarchized and interlocking.
(d) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.

5. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down
(b) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(c) All of the above.
(d) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"

2. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

3. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?

4. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

5. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?

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