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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. What is the "discursive fact?"
(a) The liberation attained through discussion.
(b) The way in which sex is put into discourse.
(c) The need people experience to discuss illicit subjects.
(d) The tendency of discourse to enlighten.

2. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Religion and sex.
(b) Secrets and shame.
(c) Truth and sex.
(d) Sex and morality.

3. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(b) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.
(c) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(d) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.

4. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"
(a) Because it has the priviledge of consolidating everything under its unity.
(b) Because it follows the pyramid of influence in which all parties feel its effects.
(c) Because it is produced from one moment to the next at every point.
(d) All of the above.

5. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?
(a) Heredity- medicalization-normalcy.
(b) Demography-family-heredity.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Perversion-heredity-degenerescence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

2. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?

3. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

4. 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?

5. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

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