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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 say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?
(a) Acknowledge a technology of sex.
(b) Cease to conceive of power as law, prohibition, liberty, and sovereignty.
(c) Rid ourselves of a juridical and negative representation of power.
(d) All of the above.

2. If one tries to define the history of sexuality by mechanisms of repression, there are two "ruptures" that Foucault identifies and says warrants further investigation. Which of the following is NOT either a description of one of the ruptures or the time period it took place?
(a) The seventeenth century.
(b) The nineteenth century.
(c) The advent of prohibitions.
(d) The loosening of the mechanism of repression.

3. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?
(a) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.
(b) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.
(c) Regulation helped spread the sexual discourse and hence sexuality.
(d) Generated perversions.

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It has created an understanding of our perversions.
(b) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.
(c) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(d) It has created a science of sexuality.

5. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?
(a) Liberate from repression.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Uphold the rules of alliance.
(d) Undercut sexual regulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

2. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

3. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?

4. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

5. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?

(see the answer key)

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