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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 would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.
(b) Never has a society been more prudish.
(c) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.

2. 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.

3. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(b) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(c) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(d) They were treatable temporary illnesses.

4. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?
(a) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(b) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.
(c) Expunge sex from things that were said
(d) Control sex's free circulation in speech.

5. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?
(a) Religion.
(b) Preaching.
(c) Morality.
(d) The family unit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

2. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

3. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

4. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

5. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?

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