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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 4, Periodization.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the rule of double conditioning state?
(a) None of the above.
(b) For every power there is a specific resistance.
(c) Every power center and resistance have more than influence working upon them.
(d) All local centers enter into an over-all strategy, and no strategy could have effect without support of local centers.

3. When sexuality came to demand the surveillance of the population where did it expand?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Demography.
(d) Pedagogy.

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

5. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?
(a) Psychoanalysis and biology.
(b) The erotic arts and science of sexuality.
(c) Ars erotica and medicalization.
(d) Scientia sexualis and biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

2. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?

3. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

4. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

5. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

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