Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Quizzes

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Quiz #1

1 When was Discipline and Punish published?
1962

1981

1975

1965
2 What is the main century that the book examines?
20th

19th

17th

16th
3 What was Foucault’s book about the history of science?
The Order of Things

History of Madness

History of Archaeology

Science and Discourse
4 What is another book Foucault published?
History of Dreams

History of Emotions

History of Prisons

History of Sexuality
5 Who was the last regicide to be drawn and quartered?
Damiens

Louis XV

Chaucer

Jacobin
6 Damiens represents the end of what kind of power?
Intimate

Controlling

Sovereign

Disciplinary
7 Torture is associated with what kind of power?
Medieval

Sovereign

Political

Disciplinary
8 Whom did Damiens try to kill?
King Edward II

King Lear

King Louis XV

King Louis X
9 When was Damiens executed?
1776

1802

1757

1854
10 When was Jeremy Bentham born?
1820

1844

1757

1748
11 The Panopticon is associated with which philosopher?
Montaigne

Plato

Spenser

Bentham
12 What does Foucault contrast torture with in his first chapter?
A whipping

A prison schedule

A hanging

A law
13 What word means related to prisons?
Conspiratorial

Carceral

Medicinal

Etiology
14 Theft is an example of what kind of crime?
Disciplinary Crime

Crime of Fraud

Crime of Blood

Sovereign Crime
15 What is an example of a crime of blood?
Lying

Theft

Murder

Fraud
16 What is the kind of power Foucault contrasts with sovereign?
Renaissance

Medieval

Intimate

Disciplinary
17 What is a word for something coming to apply to everyone instead of just someone?
Empiricism

Surveillance

Enlivening

Generalization
18 “Lateral effects” most closely means:
Misapplied effects

Side effects

Intended consequences

Backwards results
19 A negative function is primarily:
Evil

Destructive

Bad

Immoral
20 A positive functions is primarily:
Productive

Holy

Moral

Good
21 What is the word Foucault contrasts with delinquent?
Pathology

Manager

Offender

Prisoners
22 Which word refers to an entire type of person rather than a type of action?
Offender

Rapist

Delinquent

Murderer
23 An important part of torture was its:
Memory

Repression

Representation

Spectacle
24 What is another word for a way of doing something?
Type

Fashion

Ministration

Technique
25 In contrast to laws, norms ______.
Don't have to be moral

Don't have to be detailed

Don't have to be disciplinary

Don't have to be written down

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