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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 were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) It was successful in making the topic of sexuality taboo.
(b) It set practicable boundaries for sexuality.
(c) It set up a barrier against sexuality that was too rigid and provoked a backlash.
(d) It created a multiplication of singular sexualities and pleasure power spirals.

2. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.
(b) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(c) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(d) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.

3. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?
(a) It gives us freedom in the form of resistance.
(b) It simplifies the mechanics of power.
(c) All of the above.
(d) It is a common perception regarding power in various mechanisms.

4. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?
(a) Justice and solem rites.
(b) Medicine.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Family and love relationships.

5. What does Foucault say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?
(a) Their theories were looked at with skepticism by the general public.
(b) There was no exchange between the two.
(c) The information generated by one would cause advances in the other.
(d) They operated in similar fashions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

2. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

3. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

4. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

5. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

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