View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Scientia Sexualis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Canonical law.
(b) Cultural tradition.
(c) Christian pastoral.
(d) Civil law.

2. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Fundamental and natural.
(b) Religious and cleansing.
(c) Regulated and polymorphous.
(d) Rebellious and necessary.

3. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) A new mentality.
(b) A collective curiosity.
(c) Public interest power mechanisms.
(d) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.

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

5. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
(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 were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

2. What is the "discursive fact?"

3. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

4. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 424 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample