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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 theory of "degenerescence?"
(a) A heredity with maladies ended by producing a sexual pervert.
(b) Without control of social institutions the population will slowly rid itself of sexual rules.
(c) Repression of sexuality degenerates with each generation.
(d) The belief propogated that without medical help, sexual maladies will worsen until they consume the subject.

2. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?
(a) One of reproductive function.
(b) A single, all-encompassing strategy.
(c) The matrimonial relations.
(d) There is no single one, but many.

3. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Medical intervention and clinical examination.
(b) Theoretical elaboration.
(c) Penal.
(d) Judicial.

4. What do the rules of continual variations state?
(a) There are an unlimited number of possible power relationships.
(b) Power manifests itself in matrices of transformations, and not static relationships.
(c) Reistance arises from changing sources even when it remains constant.
(d) Each representation of power is unique and varying from those surrounding it.

5. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?
(a) It is constrained to the educated and powerful population.
(b) It is symptomatic of repression.
(c) It is an attempt to purge unwanted desires.
(d) It is a multiplicity of discourses produced by a many mechanisms and institutions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

2. Which of the following statements would Foucault use to describe sexuality?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

4. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

5. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?

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