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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 is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?
(a) Power lays down the rules for sexuality, defining the licit and the illicit and is maintained through language.
(b) Under the influence of a power structure, people will accept the regularity of the rules.
(c) Power is most effective when channeled through previously accepted avenues.
(d) Despite attempts to change or repress it, sexuality will continually return to a natural and common state.

2. 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.

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

4. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(b) Expression-tolerance-integration
(c) Shame-confession-redemption.
(d) Repression-expression-liberation.

5. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Transgressing laws.
(b) Lifting of prohibitions.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Irruption of speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

2. Which of the rules regarding power and resistance is represented by the following example? In the nineteenth century the sex of a child was discussed between parents and educators or doctors. However, through modifications and shifts now the sexuality of a child is discussed between the child and a doctor with the sexuality of the parents called into question.

3. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

5. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

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