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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 are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?
(a) Scientia sexualis and biology.
(b) Ars erotica and medicalization.
(c) Psychoanalysis and biology.
(d) The erotic arts and science of sexuality.

2. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) The historical theory that sexuality was repressed and we are still trying to overcome it.
(b) The theory that the more you try to prohibit something the more it self propagates.
(c) The historical theory that religious institutions controlled masses by assigning shame to sexuality.
(d) The theory that discussion of repressed emotions is the best way to experience freedom from them.

3. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(b) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(c) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(d) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.

4. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?
(a) It made possible the link of forcing a difficult confession to a scientific practice.
(b) It says the ways of sex were obscure and elusive by nature.
(c) All of the above.
(d) It was no longer concerned with just what the subject wished to hide, but what was also hidden from the subject.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

3. 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?

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

5. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?

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