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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 reason does Foucault give for what he calls the careful evasion of death?
(a) Because true political power comes from the masses.
(b) It represents the transfer of power.
(c) A new anxiety about the unbearableness of death.
(d) Procedures of power turn away from death.

2. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Sex and morality.
(b) Truth and sex.
(c) Religion and sex.
(d) Secrets and shame.

3. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?
(a) It identified its will with the will of the law, acting through mechanisms of interdiction and sanction.
(b) By presenting themselves as agencies of regulation, arbitration and demarcation; formulated in terms of law.
(c) By presenting themselves as a way of introducing order in the midst of other powers.
(d) All of the above.

4. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?
(a) Confession frees,
(b) It is a power that constrains us.
(c) Constraint and power reduce one to silence.
(d) Truths demands to surface unless held down.

5. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) A struggle against sexuality.
(b) The production of sexuality.
(c) An attempt to mask the more indiscreet, conspicuous and intractable aspects of sexuality.
(d) An attempt to gain control of sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

2. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"

3. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

4. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?

5. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?

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