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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 3, Domain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(b) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(c) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(d) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"

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

3. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They are polarized.
(b) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(c) They turn against each other.
(d) They cancel each other out.

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?
(a) It is an injunction of nonexistance, nonmanifestation, and silence.
(b) It affirms that a thing is not permitted.
(c) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.
(d) All of the above.

5. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?
(a) Generated perversions.
(b) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.
(c) Regulation helped spread the sexual discourse and hence sexuality.
(d) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.

Short Answer Questions

1. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

2. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?

3. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

4. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

5. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

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