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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 reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(b) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(c) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(d) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.
2. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.
(b) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(c) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(d) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
3. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) Massive censorship.
(b) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(c) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(d) A general prudishness of language.
4. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Sexual repression is not a historical fact.
(c) The discourse of sexual repression is part of the incitement to discourse on sex.
(d) Power is not derived primarily from repression.
5. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(b) Repression-expression-liberation.
(c) Shame-confession-redemption.
(d) Expression-tolerance-integration
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?
2. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?
3. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
4. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?
5. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"
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