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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Pathologies recognized and treated in the nineteenth century.
(c) Tactical materializations of psychiatric power.
(d) Targets for ventures into knowledge that correspond to four strategies.

2. What does Foucault NOT say was true about the science of sexuality before Freud?
(a) It stirred up people's fears about the consequences of sexualities.
(b) It concerned itself primarily with aberrations and perversions.
(c) It was devoted to strictly pursuing truth.
(d) It wasn't very rational or scientific.

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

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

5. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Perversions.
(b) Extra-marital sex.
(c) Children.
(d) Married couples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

2. Why are the chronological reminders of techniques and time line of the deployment of sexuality important to the theory laid out by Foucault?

3. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?

4. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

5. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

(see the answer key)

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