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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 does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(b) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(c) Massive censorship.
(d) A general prudishness of language.

2. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(b) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.
(c) They have established various points of implantation for sex.
(d) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.

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

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

5. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) What is the path out of repression?
(b) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(c) How did we come to be repressed?
(d) Why are we still repressed?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?

3. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

4. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

5. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

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