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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 is scientia sexualis?
(a) The study of aberrations, perversions, and other forms of alternate sexualities.
(b) The biological science of reproduction.
(c) Procedures for telling the truth about sex which are adapted from confession.
(d) The science of mastering the act of sexual pleasure.

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

3. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(b) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.
(c) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.
(d) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.

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

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(b) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(c) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(d) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

4. 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?

5. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?

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