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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. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.
(b) All of the above.
(c) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(d) The revolution was not against the laws (the seat of power) but against those that overstepped the legal framework. Thus power and law were still on the same side.

2. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As something not to be taken into account.
(b) As having been repressed for centuries.
(c) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.
(d) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.

3. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?
(a) Heredity- medicalization-normalcy.
(b) Perversion-heredity-degenerescence.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Demography-family-heredity.

4. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"
(a) Speaking about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.
(b) Speaking gives the illusion of experience and knowledge.
(c) Speaking is an effective way to repression.
(d) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.

5. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Propagation of knowledge.
(b) Production of power.
(c) Instances of discursive production.
(d) Liberation from repression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?

2. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

3. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

4. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

5. 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.

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