The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, ,Chapter 1, Objective.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.
(b) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(c) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(d) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.

2. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was driven underground and become occult.
(b) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(c) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(d) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.

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

4. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?
(a) Because he represented the negative effects of repression.
(b) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.
(c) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.
(d) Because he was part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.

5. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(b) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(c) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(d) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?

3. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the negative relation of power and sexuality?

4. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

5. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?

(see the answer key)

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