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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Right of Death and Power Over Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?
(a) All of the above.
(b) They are inscribed in power as an irreducible opposite.
(c) They only exist in the strategic field of power relations.
(d) They are mobile and transitory.

2. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
(a) It has created multiple perversions.
(b) Secure sexuality under law and give alliance control over sexuality.
(c) It has brought sexual discourse into the home.
(d) It has unified social strategies into the family unit.

3. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Christian pastoral.
(b) Civil law.
(c) Canonical law.
(d) Cultural tradition.

4. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(b) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(c) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(d) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.

5. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?
(a) The control of sexuality in children by parents and teachers.
(b) Sex education in recognized institutions for children.
(c) The assertion that children engage in sexual activity, and that it is dangerous.
(d) The system of medical pathologies describing sexual activity in children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rule of immanence state?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

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

4. What institution sought to free sexual instinct from heredity, eugenics, and racism?

5. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?

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