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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 one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They are articulated around power relations.
(b) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.
(c) They are hierarchized and interlocking.
(d) They are the exclusive domain of adults.

2. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(b) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(c) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.
(d) It was driven underground and become occult.

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

4. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(b) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(c) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(d) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.

5. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?
(a) Their actions were symptomatic of repression.
(b) Sex became something to say and to exhaustively put into words.
(c) They were both struggling against power mechanisms out of their domain.
(d) They were both anomalies to science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a procedure by which the confession came to be constituted in scientific terms?

2. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

3. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

4. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?

5. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?

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