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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Right of Death and Power Over Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It created polymorphous sexualities.
(b) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(c) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.
(d) It subjugated the lower classes.

2. Which statement would Foucault agree with?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Where there is power, there is resistance.
(c) Power relationships depend on a multiplicity of points of resistance.
(d) Resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.

3. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) The concentration of wealth and education.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) The partnership between church and state.
(d) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.

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

5. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
(b) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(c) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(d) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

2. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?

3. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?

4. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

5. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?

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