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

2. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.
(b) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(c) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(d) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.

3. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(b) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.
(c) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.
(d) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(b) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(c) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(d) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.

5. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(b) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(c) There was a sensualization of power.
(d) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

3. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

4. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?

5. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

(see the answer key)

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