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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 is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) How did we come to be repressed?
(b) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(c) Why are we still repressed?
(d) What is the path out of repression?

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the cycle of prohibition?
(a) Power constrains sex only through a taboo that plays on the alternative between two nonexistences.
(b) To deal with sex, power employs nothing more than a law of prohibition.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The threat of a punishment that is the supression of sex.

3. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As having been repressed for centuries.
(b) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.
(c) As something not to be taken into account.
(d) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.

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

5. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) There was a sensualization of power.
(b) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(c) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(d) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

2. What do the rules of continual variations state?

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

4. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

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

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