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

2. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?
(a) Sex became something to say and to exhaustively put into words.
(b) They were both anomalies to science.
(c) They were both struggling against power mechanisms out of their domain.
(d) Their actions were symptomatic of repression.

3. 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) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(c) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.
(d) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.

4. What was the affect of the development of bio-power on the juridical system of the law?
(a) It operates more and more as a norm and is more often regulatory.
(b) Law focuses on the necessary instead of the infraction.
(c) Law is given ultimate power because it protects the population.
(d) It looks for biological explanations for infractions.

5. What is the deployment of alliance?
(a) The tendency of strategies to work together under power.
(b) The unification effect of the repression of sexuality.
(c) A system of rules and regulations based in kinship ties and marital bonds.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?

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

3. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

4. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

5. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

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