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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 public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) Medicine.
(b) The government.
(c) The church.
(d) The law.

2. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(b) A general prudishness of language.
(c) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(d) Massive censorship.

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

4. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?
(a) It was ineffective at causing change.
(b) It was closely tied to the ends needed by governmental needs.
(c) It never ceased to hide the thing it was talking about.
(d) It was unaccepted by the general population.

5. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Pedagogy.
(c) Criminal justice.
(d) Monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?

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

3. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

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

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