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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 many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) The partnership between church and state.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.
(d) The concentration of wealth and education.

2. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) It created a multiplication of singular sexualities and pleasure power spirals.
(b) It set up a barrier against sexuality that was too rigid and provoked a backlash.
(c) It set practicable boundaries for sexuality.
(d) It was successful in making the topic of sexuality taboo.

3. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) A general prudishness of language.
(b) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(c) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(d) Massive censorship.

4. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
(a) Sexual practices that don't include one member of each gender.
(b) Any sexual practice not condoned by law.
(c) Sexual activities outside matrimony.
(d) Any sexual practice that couldn't result in procreation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say is a derivative basis of power?

2. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

3. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

5. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

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