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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. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(b) It subjugated the lower classes.
(c) It created polymorphous sexualities.
(d) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.

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

3. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?
(a) It is a power that constrains us.
(b) Truths demands to surface unless held down.
(c) Confession frees,
(d) Constraint and power reduce one to silence.

4. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Shame-confession-redemption.
(b) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(c) Repression-expression-liberation.
(d) Expression-tolerance-integration

5. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?
(a) It is the most tolerant of sexual perversions.
(b) It is the most repressed.
(c) It is the most long-winded and impatient of societies.
(d) It is the best informed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

4. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

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

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