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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 need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.
(b) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.
(c) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.
(d) The expression of morally repressed desires.
2. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(b) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.
(c) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down
(d) All of the above.
3. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(b) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(c) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(d) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
4. What does the rule of immanence state?
(a) Both power and resistence are generated from withing the same power structure.
(b) Resistance resides within the sphere of power.
(c) There is no disinterested scientific inquiry about sex. Power and knowledge are always connected.
(d) The largest force of power will have the largest force of resistance.
5. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(b) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(c) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(d) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?
2. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?
3. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
4. What do the rules of continual variations state?
5. Which words would Foucault use to explain power?
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