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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 would Foucault agree with?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Where there is power, there is resistance.
(c) Power relationships depend on a multiplicity of points of resistance.
(d) Resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.

2. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Propagation of knowledge.
(b) Liberation from repression.
(c) Production of power.
(d) Instances of discursive production.

3. What is the "discursive fact?"
(a) The tendency of discourse to enlighten.
(b) The need people experience to discuss illicit subjects.
(c) The liberation attained through discussion.
(d) The way in which sex is put into discourse.

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

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(b) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?
(c) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?
(d) Is sexual repression a historical fact?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

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

3. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

4. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

5. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"

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