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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. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
(a) Any sexual practice not condoned by law.
(b) Sexual practices that don't include one member of each gender.
(c) Any sexual practice that couldn't result in procreation.
(d) Sexual activities outside matrimony.

2. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?
(a) By presenting themselves as a way of introducing order in the midst of other powers.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It identified its will with the will of the law, acting through mechanisms of interdiction and sanction.
(d) By presenting themselves as agencies of regulation, arbitration and demarcation; formulated in terms of law.

3. 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 set practicable boundaries for sexuality.
(c) It was successful in making the topic of sexuality taboo.
(d) It set up a barrier against sexuality that was too rigid and provoked a backlash.

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

5. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?
(a) Justice and solem rites.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Family and love relationships.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?

2. What does the rule of immanence state?

3. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

4. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

5. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

(see the answer key)

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