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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. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They are articulated around power relations.
(b) They are hierarchized and interlocking.
(c) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.
(d) They are the exclusive domain of adults.

2. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Pedagogy.
(b) Criminal justice.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Monarchy.

3. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(b) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(c) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(d) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.

4. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The brothel and the lower class.
(b) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(c) The brothel and mental hospital.
(d) The mental hospital and the unmarried.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

2. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

3. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"

4. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

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

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