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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 components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(b) Expression-tolerance-integration
(c) Repression-expression-liberation.
(d) Shame-confession-redemption.

2. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Transgressing laws.
(b) Lifting of prohibitions.
(c) Irruption of speech.
(d) Abstinence.

3. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(b) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.
(c) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.

4. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(b) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.
(c) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(d) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.

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

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 is scientia sexualis?

3. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

4. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

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

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