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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) All of the above.
(c) Because it is produced from one moment to the next at every point.
(d) Because it has the priviledge of consolidating everything under its unity.

2. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Shame-confession-redemption.
(b) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(c) Expression-tolerance-integration
(d) Repression-expression-liberation.

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

4. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?
(a) Conflicting forces repress all other power mechanisms.
(b) Its success if proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Secrecy is in the nature of abuse of power.

5. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(b) It denounces the powers it exercises.
(c) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(d) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

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

4. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?

5. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

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