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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 define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?
(a) Scientia sexualis.
(b) The confession.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Publication.

2. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(b) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(c) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(d) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.

3. What is the "discursive fact?"
(a) The tendency of discourse to enlighten.
(b) The liberation attained through discussion.
(c) The way in which sex is put into discourse.
(d) The need people experience to discuss illicit subjects.

4. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(b) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.
(c) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(d) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.

5. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:
(a) To be a social structure that restrains sexuality.
(b) All of the above.
(c) To anchor sexuality and give it support.
(d) Allow alliance and sexuality to effect each other.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

4. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?

5. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

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