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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 distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(b) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(c) A general prudishness of language.
(d) Massive censorship.

2. Which of the following is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(b) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?
(c) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?
(d) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?

3. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?
(a) It has moved from the immoral to the moral.
(b) It has become more healthy and balanced.
(c) It has been a chronicle of increasing repression.
(d) Sexuality has thrived in predefined relationships.

4. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Laws started to prosecute aldulterers.
(b) Confessions started to include sex.
(c) Sexuality became seen as pathology.
(d) Sex became a secular and state concern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?

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

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 is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?

5. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?

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