The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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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 of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) A norm of sexual development was defined.
(b) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.
(c) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.
(d) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.

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

3. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(b) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.
(c) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(d) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.

4. What do the rules of continual variations state?
(a) There are an unlimited number of possible power relationships.
(b) Reistance arises from changing sources even when it remains constant.
(c) Each representation of power is unique and varying from those surrounding it.
(d) Power manifests itself in matrices of transformations, and not static relationships.

5. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?
(a) Cease to conceive of power as law, prohibition, liberty, and sovereignty.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Acknowledge a technology of sex.
(d) Rid ourselves of a juridical and negative representation of power.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the rule of immanence state?

3. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?

4. What did the technology of sex combine?

5. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?

(see the answer key)

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