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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 relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?
(a) The law is one of many tools used by governmental powers.
(b) The power mechanisms of law and government constantly clash are are kept concealed.
(c) Governments exercise power through law, and the law is the seat of their power.
(d) The law constrains the power of the governments.

2. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.
(b) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(c) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(d) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.

3. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(b) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.
(c) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.
(d) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.

4. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(b) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(c) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(d) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.

5. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Civil law.
(b) Canonical law.
(c) Christian pastoral.
(d) Cultural tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

2. What does Foucault say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?

3. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

4. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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

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