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

2. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.
(b) The partnership between church and state.
(c) The concentration of wealth and education.
(d) Serfdom.

3. What does Foucault NOT say was true about the science of sexuality before Freud?
(a) It wasn't very rational or scientific.
(b) It concerned itself primarily with aberrations and perversions.
(c) It was devoted to strictly pursuing truth.
(d) It stirred up people's fears about the consequences of sexualities.

4. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(c) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(d) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.

5. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(b) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.
(c) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

3. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?

4. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

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

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