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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. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(b) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(c) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(d) They were treatable temporary illnesses.

2. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?
(a) It is the principle of sex as the cause of any and everything.
(b) Immoral behavior in other areas would cause specific sexual aberrations.
(c) Alternate sexualities were created by the society that governed the people.
(d) Specific alternate sexualities were caused by a wide variety of stimuli over an extended period of time.

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

4. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.
(b) Never has a society been more prudish.
(c) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.
(d) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.

5. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.
(b) A norm of sexual development was defined.
(c) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.
(d) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

2. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

3. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

4. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

5. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

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