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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 a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(b) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(c) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.
(d) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.

2. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Cultural tradition.
(b) Christian pastoral.
(c) Canonical law.
(d) Civil law.

3. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(b) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.
(c) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(d) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.

4. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Medical intervention and clinical examination.
(b) Judicial.
(c) Penal.
(d) Theoretical elaboration.

5. 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) Alternate sexualities were created by the society that governed the people.
(c) Immoral behavior in other areas would cause specific sexual aberrations.
(d) Specific alternate sexualities were caused by a wide variety of stimuli over an extended period of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?

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

3. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

4. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

5. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

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