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

2. 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?
(a) Expunge sex from things that were said
(b) Control sex's free circulation in speech.
(c) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(d) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.

3. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(b) There was a sensualization of power.
(c) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(d) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.

4. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?
(a) It reached all classes at the same time.
(b) It spread through the different mechanisms at different class levels.
(c) It was homogeneous.
(d) It was created by the bourgeois to control the working class.

5. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?
(a) A single, all-encompassing strategy.
(b) One of reproductive function.
(c) There is no single one, but many.
(d) The matrimonial relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Foucault define the current political power forces?

2. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

3. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

4. What example does Foucault give of blood and law haunting the administration of sexuality?

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

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