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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 does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(b) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(c) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(d) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.

2. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(b) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(c) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(d) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.

3. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?
(a) Publication.
(b) Scientia sexualis.
(c) The confession.
(d) Doubt.

4. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(b) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.
(c) Through the confession.
(d) In the mental institute.

5. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) Secrets told to him by friends.
(b) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.
(c) Sexual acts he heard in confession.
(d) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?

2. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

3. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?

4. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?

5. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?

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