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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 of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
(a) Campaigns tried to conform it into a concerted economic and political behavior.
(b) It was an object of analysis and target of intervention.
(c) It was uniformly negated by existing power mechanisms.
(d) It was essential the state knew of it and the use made of it.

2. 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 gain control of sexuality.
(d) An attempt to mask the more indiscreet, conspicuous and intractable aspects of sexuality.

3. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Demography-family-heredity.
(c) Heredity- medicalization-normalcy.
(d) Perversion-heredity-degenerescence.

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(b) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(c) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(d) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.

5. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.
(b) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(c) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.
(d) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?

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

3. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?

4. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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

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