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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 NOT say is a derivative basis of power?
(a) Machinery of production.
(b) Families.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Political authority.

2. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?
(a) The political influence.
(b) The welfare of future generations.
(c) The health and well being of the body.
(d) The soul.

3. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?
(a) Undercut sexual regulation.
(b) Uphold the rules of alliance.
(c) Liberate from repression.
(d) None of the above.

4. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?
(a) That we derive sexual pleasure from it.
(b) That we feel we are being subversive.
(c) That we are ashamed of our sexuality.
(d) That we long for more understanding and help.

5. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?
(a) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.
(b) Regulation helped spread the sexual discourse and hence sexuality.
(c) Generated perversions.
(d) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

2. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?

3. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

5. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?

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