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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 true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It says the ways of sex were obscure and elusive by nature.
(c) It made possible the link of forcing a difficult confession to a scientific practice.
(d) It was no longer concerned with just what the subject wished to hide, but what was also hidden from the subject.
2. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.
(b) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(c) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(d) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
3. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(b) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.
(c) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(d) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.
4. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"
(a) Without control of social institutions the population will slowly rid itself of sexual rules.
(b) A heredity with maladies ended by producing a sexual pervert.
(c) Repression of sexuality degenerates with each generation.
(d) The belief propogated that without medical help, sexual maladies will worsen until they consume the subject.
5. What does Foucault NOT say is a derivative basis of power?
(a) Political authority.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Machinery of production.
(d) Families.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?
2. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?
3. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
4. How does Foucault define the current political power forces?
5. Which of the following is NOT one of the three successive stages by which sexuality penetrated the population at large?
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