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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?
(a) The law is one of many tools used by governmental powers.
(b) Governments exercise power through law, and the law is the seat of their power.
(c) The law constrains the power of the governments.
(d) The power mechanisms of law and government constantly clash are are kept concealed.

3. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the cycle of prohibition?
(a) To deal with sex, power employs nothing more than a law of prohibition.
(b) The threat of a punishment that is the supression of sex.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Power constrains sex only through a taboo that plays on the alternative between two nonexistences.

4. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) It created a multiplication of singular sexualities and pleasure power spirals.
(b) It was successful in making the topic of sexuality taboo.
(c) It set practicable boundaries for sexuality.
(d) It set up a barrier against sexuality that was too rigid and provoked a backlash.

5. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(b) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.
(c) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(d) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

2. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

3. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?

4. What do the rules of continual variations state?

5. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

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