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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 say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?
(a) They operated in similar fashions.
(b) The information generated by one would cause advances in the other.
(c) There was no exchange between the two.
(d) Their theories were looked at with skepticism by the general public.
2. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) The partnership between church and state.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.
(d) The concentration of wealth and education.
3. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?
(a) There was so much that the newly formed science of sex couldn't cope with it.
(b) There was just enough to feed the developing science.
(c) Discourse had to be found in the hidden nooks and crannies it existed in.
(d) There was so little available discourse that much of the budding science was based on hypothesis and conjecture rather than experience or evidence.
4. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) In the mental institute.
(b) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.
(c) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(d) Through the confession.
5. 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) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(c) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(d) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
2. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?
3. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
4. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
5. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
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