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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. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Pedagogy.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Criminal justice.
(d) Medicine.

2. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?
(a) The biological study of sexuality discovered hormones and thus explained perversions medically.
(b) The population openly accepted sexual discourse as necessary for a healthy sexuality.
(c) Perversions were defined and recognized.
(d) The focus on sexuality went from everlasting punishment after death to a medical problem of illness in life.

3. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) Analysis of sexuality.
(b) Medicalization of the sexually peculiar.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Classification of perversions.

4. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Transgressing laws.
(c) Irruption of speech.
(d) Lifting of prohibitions.

5. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(b) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(c) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(d) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

2. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?

3. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"

4. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?

5. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

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