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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. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(b) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(c) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(d) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.

2. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(b) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.
(c) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.
(d) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.

3. What element of the confession has opened the pathway to explore existing domains?
(a) Saying what was done.
(b) Saying how the act being confessed was done.
(c) Having moral impetus to truthfulness.
(d) The reconstruction of all individual pleasures.

4. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?
(a) Oppositional.
(b) Unidirectional.
(c) Spiral.
(d) Mobile and nebulous.

5. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?
(a) That we feel we are being subversive.
(b) That we derive sexual pleasure from it.
(c) That we are ashamed of our sexuality.
(d) That we long for more understanding and help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?

2. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

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

4. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

5. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

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