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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 does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(b) Shame-confession-redemption.
(c) Repression-expression-liberation.
(d) Expression-tolerance-integration

2. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) Why are we still repressed?
(b) How did we come to be repressed?
(c) What is the path out of repression?
(d) Why do we say that we are repressed?

3. What is a blood society?
(a) None of the above.
(b) A society of deduction and death.
(c) A society whose symbolism and values are centered on blood
(d) A society of strong familty ties and loyalties.

4. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?
(a) The law constrains the power of the governments.
(b) Governments exercise power through law, and the law is the seat of their power.
(c) The power mechanisms of law and government constantly clash are are kept concealed.
(d) The law is one of many tools used by governmental powers.

5. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) The theory that discussion of repressed emotions is the best way to experience freedom from them.
(b) The theory that the more you try to prohibit something the more it self propagates.
(c) The historical theory that sexuality was repressed and we are still trying to overcome it.
(d) The historical theory that religious institutions controlled masses by assigning shame to sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?

2. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

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

4. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?

5. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?

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