View a FREE sample

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 modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(b) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(c) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.
(d) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.

2. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) All of the above.
(b) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(c) 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.
(d) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.

3. What is a society of sex?
(a) A society that embraces the sexual act.
(b) A society based on affiliations created through sex.
(c) A society that focuses on the body, life, and it's proliferation.
(d) A society obsessed with sexual symbolism.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(b) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?
(c) Is sexual repression a historical fact?
(d) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?

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) Allow alliance and sexuality to effect each other.
(d) To anchor sexuality and give it support.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?

2. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?

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

4. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

5. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 526 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample