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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 following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(b) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(c) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(d) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.

2. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(b) It created polymorphous sexualities.
(c) It subjugated the lower classes.
(d) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.

3. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) All of the above.
(b) 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.
(c) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(d) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
(b) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(c) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.
(d) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.

5. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.
(b) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(c) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.
(d) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

2. What does Foucault NOT say was true about the science of sexuality before Freud?

3. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?

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

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

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