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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. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"
(a) Because it is produced from one moment to the next at every point.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Because it follows the pyramid of influence in which all parties feel its effects.
(d) Because it has the priviledge of consolidating everything under its unity.

2. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.
(b) In the mental institute.
(c) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(d) Through the confession.

3. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?
(a) Making marital bonds paramount vs liberating sexuality.
(b) Control of the population vs expansion of perversions.
(c) Maintaining social law vs proliferating itself and controlling populations.
(d) Social law vs biological impulses that end in reproduction.

4. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(d) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.

5. What is bio-history?
(a) The changing importance of biology in the political sphere.
(b) The history of materialization and subjugation of biology.
(c) The pressures through which the movements of life and the processes of history affect each other.
(d) The history of the health of human populations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

3. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

4. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

5. Which of the following is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?

(see the answer key)

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