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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. Where would techniques of repression of sexuality first appear?
(a) In the educated middle class.
(b) Uniformally across society.
(c) In the labor class.
(d) In the religious of the upper class.

2. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.
(b) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(c) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.
(d) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.

3. What is the deployment of alliance?
(a) The unification effect of the repression of sexuality.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A system of rules and regulations based in kinship ties and marital bonds.
(d) The tendency of strategies to work together under power.

4. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.
(b) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.
(c) As something not to be taken into account.
(d) As having been repressed for centuries.

5. Which of the following does NOT represent a transformation the Foucault identifies after the nineteenth century?
(a) Sexuality was was moved into the strictly private sector.
(b) The medicine of perversions and programs of eugenics.
(c) Biological responsibility was assigned to sex.
(d) The medicine of sex was set apart from the medicine of the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements regarding power would Foucault likely agree with?

2. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

3. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?

4. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

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

(see the answer key)

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