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

2. 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 an attempt to purge unwanted desires.
(c) It is a multiplicity of discourses produced by a many mechanisms and institutions.
(d) It is symptomatic of repression.

3. What institution sought to free sexual instinct from heredity, eugenics, and racism?
(a) Pedogogical institutions.
(b) Psychiatry.
(c) The family unit.
(d) Biology.

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.
(b) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(c) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
(d) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.

5. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Confessions started to include sex.
(b) Sexuality became seen as pathology.
(c) Laws started to prosecute aldulterers.
(d) Sex became a secular and state concern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?

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

3. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?

4. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

5. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

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