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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 can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?
(a) It was primarily a legal and judicial.
(b) It was unified and focused.
(c) It's object was prohibition.
(d) They were multi faceted and diverse.

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

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

4. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?
(a) Psychoanalysis and biology.
(b) The erotic arts and science of sexuality.
(c) Scientia sexualis and biology.
(d) Ars erotica and medicalization.

5. 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 as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(c) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

2. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

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

4. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

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

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