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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 say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?
(a) The caste which governs.
(b) The groups which control state apparatus.
(c) At the restricted level where their tactics are inscribed.
(d) Those who make pivotal economic decisions.

2. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(b) That it is a function of our over analytical society.
(c) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(d) That is was created as a way to centralize power.

3. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Judicial.
(b) Penal.
(c) Theoretical elaboration.
(d) Medical intervention and clinical examination.

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

5. Why was sex so suited to fill the void in power left by the transformation of power over life?
(a) It is a universal starting point for populations.
(b) Its extreme biological import.
(c) It already had a large network of discourse.
(d) It was a means of access to both the body and the life of the species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

2. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

3. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?

4. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?

5. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

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