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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. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.
(b) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(c) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.
(d) They have established various points of implantation for sex.

2. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?
(a) Religion.
(b) Morality.
(c) Preaching.
(d) The family unit.

3. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Religion and sex.
(b) Truth and sex.
(c) Secrets and shame.
(d) Sex and morality.

4. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Cultural tradition.
(b) Christian pastoral.
(c) Civil law.
(d) Canonical law.

5. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.
(b) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.
(c) The expression of morally repressed desires.
(d) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?

2. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?

3. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

4. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

5. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

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