The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 2, The Perverse Implantation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
(a) Any sexual practice that couldn't result in procreation.
(b) Sexual practices that don't include one member of each gender.
(c) Any sexual practice not condoned by law.
(d) Sexual activities outside matrimony.

2. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(b) They cancel each other out.
(c) They turn against each other.
(d) They are polarized.

3. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.
(b) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.
(c) The expression of morally repressed desires.
(d) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.

4. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
(b) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.
(c) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(d) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.

5. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(b) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(c) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(d) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

2. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

3. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

4. What is the "discursive fact?"

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

(see the answer key)

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