The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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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. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(b) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(c) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(d) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.

2. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was essential the state knew of it and the use made of it.
(b) Campaigns tried to conform it into a concerted economic and political behavior.
(c) It was uniformly negated by existing power mechanisms.
(d) It was an object of analysis and target of intervention.

3. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.
(b) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
(c) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(d) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.

4. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They are polarized.
(b) They cancel each other out.
(c) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(d) They turn against each other.

5. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) Sexual acts he heard in confession.
(b) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.
(c) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.
(d) Secrets told to him by friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

2. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?

3. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

4. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

5. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?

(see the answer key)

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