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

2. What does the rule of immanence state?
(a) There is no disinterested scientific inquiry about sex. Power and knowledge are always connected.
(b) The largest force of power will have the largest force of resistance.
(c) Resistance resides within the sphere of power.
(d) Both power and resistence are generated from withing the same power structure.

3. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?
(a) The format of the confessional is our best remedy to repression.
(b) Scientia sexualis is a more valid and evolved pursuit of truth than ars erotica.
(c) Sexuality has been repressed by the general consent of the populace.
(d) Western societies did not manifest the movement of a power that was essentially repressive.

4. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Justice and solem rites.
(d) Family and love relationships.

5. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Sex and morality.
(b) Truth and sex.
(c) Secrets and shame.
(d) Religion and sex.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?

3. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

4. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?

5. What does Foucault say about resistance?

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