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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. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The church.
(b) The government.
(c) The law.
(d) Medicine.

2. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?
(a) The labeling as the perverse as the essence of a person.
(b) The identification of the need of mental help to those of uncommon sexuality.
(c) The study of sex as a biological and psychical condition with pathologies that could be normalized.
(d) The realization of pleasure in psychiatric discourse.

3. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?
(a) Redemption from perceived sin.
(b) The throwing off of unilateral power structures.
(c) The battle against repression.
(d) Complex power mechanisms.

4. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.
(c) The revolution was not against the laws (the seat of power) but against those that overstepped the legal framework. Thus power and law were still on the same side.
(d) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.

5. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It is a common perception regarding power in various mechanisms.
(c) It simplifies the mechanics of power.
(d) It gives us freedom in the form of resistance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?

2. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

3. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?

4. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?

5. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?

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