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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. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.
(b) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.
(c) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(d) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.

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

3. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?
(a) Control sex's free circulation in speech.
(b) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(c) Expunge sex from things that were said
(d) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.
(b) They are hierarchized and interlocking.
(c) They are the exclusive domain of adults.
(d) They are articulated around power relations.

5. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?
(a) It is the most repressed.
(b) It is the most long-winded and impatient of societies.
(c) It is the most tolerant of sexual perversions.
(d) It is the best informed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

2. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

3. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?

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

5. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?

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