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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 does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(b) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(c) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.
(d) It denounces the powers it exercises.
2. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.
(b) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(c) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(d) It has undergone a recent revolution.
3. Which of the following is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?
(b) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?
(c) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?
(d) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
4. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(b) The brothel and the lower class.
(c) The brothel and mental hospital.
(d) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
5. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?
(a) Discourse is multifaceted form of power.
(b) Knowledge generates discourse, which manifests power.
(c) Every power manifests itself as new discourse.
(d) Discourse joins power and knowledge together, and its tactics are variable and changing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
2. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
3. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
4. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
5. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?
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