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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 statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?
(a) Its success if proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
(b) Conflicting forces repress all other power mechanisms.
(c) Secrecy is in the nature of abuse of power.
(d) All of the above.
2. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(b) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(c) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(d) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
3. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(b) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(c) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(d) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
4. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.
(b) As having been repressed for centuries.
(c) As something not to be taken into account.
(d) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.
5. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?
(a) Because he represented the negative effects of repression.
(b) Because he was part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.
(c) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.
(d) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
2. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
3. What does the rule of immanence state?
4. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
5. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?
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