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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Scientia Sexualis.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) Sexual acts he heard in confession.
(b) Secrets told to him by friends.
(c) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.
(d) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.
2. What is scientia sexualis?
(a) The biological science of reproduction.
(b) The study of aberrations, perversions, and other forms of alternate sexualities.
(c) Procedures for telling the truth about sex which are adapted from confession.
(d) The science of mastering the act of sexual pleasure.
3. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(b) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
(c) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.
(d) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(b) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(c) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.
(d) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
5. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(b) A general prudishness of language.
(c) Massive censorship.
(d) A uniform concern to hide sex.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
2. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
3. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
4. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
5. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
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