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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 best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Religious and cleansing.
(b) Rebellious and necessary.
(c) Regulated and polymorphous.
(d) Fundamental and natural.

2. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(b) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(c) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(d) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.

3. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It created polymorphous sexualities.
(b) It subjugated the lower classes.
(c) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.
(d) It caused an increase in religious ferver.

4. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.
(b) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(c) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.
(d) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

2. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

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

4. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?

5. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?

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