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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 would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) A norm of sexual development was defined.
(b) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.
(c) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.
(d) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.

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

3. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?
(a) The domination of authority figures and the repression of sexual practice.
(b) Perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.
(c) Anxiety and domination.
(d) The effective practice of removing sexual impetus.

4. What does Foucault say about resistance?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It derives from a few heterogeneous principles.
(c) There is a single source of all resistence.
(d) There are points of it present everywhere in the power network.

5. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(c) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.
(d) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the rules of continual variations state?

2. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?

3. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?

4. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

5. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?

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