The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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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 would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.
(b) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.
(c) Never has a society been more prudish.
(d) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.

2. Which of the rules regarding power and resistance is represented by the following example? In the nineteenth century the sex of a child was discussed between parents and educators or doctors. However, through modifications and shifts now the sexuality of a child is discussed between the child and a doctor with the sexuality of the parents called into question.
(a) Rules of continual variations.
(b) Rule of double conditioning.
(c) Rule of immanence.
(d) Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses.

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 with influence over every aspect of our lives.
(c) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.
(d) As something not to be taken into account.

4. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(b) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(c) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(d) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.

5. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?
(a) All of the above.
(b) To prove that the power requisite for complete repression was present but not utilized.
(c) Because the form of the power utilized was unique to sexuality.
(d) Our accepted model of power mechanisms is too simple and unidimensional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?

2. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

3. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the negative relation of power and sexuality?

5. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

(see the answer key)

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