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

2. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) What is the path out of repression?
(b) How did we come to be repressed?
(c) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(d) Why are we still repressed?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(b) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?
(c) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?
(d) Is sexual repression a historical fact?

4. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(b) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(c) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
(d) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.

5. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(b) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(c) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(d) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?

2. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

3. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

5. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

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