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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 2, Method.

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) Medicine.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Criminal justice.
(d) Pedagogy.

2. Which of the following statements regarding power would Foucault likely agree with?
(a) Relations of power are not in a position of exteriority with respect to other types of relationships.
(b) Power is not something that is acquired, seized, or shared.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Power comes from below.

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

4. 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) All of the above.
(c) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.
(d) It is an injunction of nonexistance, nonmanifestation, and silence.

5. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Rebellious and necessary.
(b) Religious and cleansing.
(c) Fundamental and natural.
(d) Regulated and polymorphous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

2. 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?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

4. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

5. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?

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