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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. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?
(a) Perversion-heredity-degenerescence.
(b) Demography-family-heredity.
(c) Heredity- medicalization-normalcy.
(d) None of the above.

2. 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.

3. What does the rule of immanence state?
(a) Both power and resistence are generated from withing the same power structure.
(b) The largest force of power will have the largest force of resistance.
(c) Resistance resides within the sphere of power.
(d) There is no disinterested scientific inquiry about sex. Power and knowledge are always connected.

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(b) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(c) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(d) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault agree with?
(a) Sex is historically subordinate to sexuality.
(b) We must conceptualize the deployment of sexuality on the basis of techniques of power that are contemporary with it.
(c) The ananlysis of sexuality does not necessarily imply the omission of the body, anatomy, biology, and function.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

2. What does Foucault say has gone from symbolics of blood to analytics of sexuality?

3. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

4. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

5. Which of the following is one of the most essential internal operating principles in the deployment of sexuality?

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