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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 can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(b) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(c) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(d) It is the Western discovery of new vices.

2. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was driven underground and become occult.
(b) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(c) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.
(d) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.

3. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Pedagogy.
(d) Criminal justice.

4. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The brothel and the lower class.
(b) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(c) The brothel and mental hospital.
(d) The mental hospital and the lower class.

5. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.
(b) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.
(c) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.
(d) A norm of sexual development was defined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

2. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

3. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

4. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

5. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?

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