The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Scientia Sexualis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(b) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(c) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.
(d) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.

2. What does Foucault say that the science of sex achieved in the nineteenth century?
(a) The obscuration of truth about sex.
(b) The direct confrontation of a social taboo.
(c) Laying the groundwork for a meticulous scientific course of study.
(d) The study of sex in a detached manner.

3. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(b) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(c) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.
(d) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.

4. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?
(a) Power is not derived primarily from repression.
(b) Sexual repression is not a historical fact.
(c) The discourse of sexual repression is part of the incitement to discourse on sex.
(d) All of the above.

5. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(b) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(c) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(d) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.

Short Answer Questions

1. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

2. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?

3. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

4. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

5. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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