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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. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"
(a) Because it follows the pyramid of influence in which all parties feel its effects.
(b) Because it is produced from one moment to the next at every point.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Because it has the priviledge of consolidating everything under its unity.

2. What does Foucault say that the science of sex achieved in the nineteenth century?
(a) The direct confrontation of a social taboo.
(b) The obscuration of truth about sex.
(c) Laying the groundwork for a meticulous scientific course of study.
(d) The study of sex in a detached manner.

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

4. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) The revolution was not against the laws (the seat of power) but against those that overstepped the legal framework. Thus power and law were still on the same side.
(b) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.

5. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?
(a) Immoral behavior in other areas would cause specific sexual aberrations.
(b) It is the principle of sex as the cause of any and everything.
(c) Specific alternate sexualities were caused by a wide variety of stimuli over an extended period of time.
(d) Alternate sexualities were created by the society that governed the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

2. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?

3. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

5. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?

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