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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 is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?
(a) Spiral.
(b) Oppositional.
(c) Mobile and nebulous.
(d) Unidirectional.

2. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(b) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.
(c) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(d) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.

3. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Theoretical elaboration.
(b) Judicial.
(c) Medical intervention and clinical examination.
(d) Penal.

4. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(b) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.
(c) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(d) It is in fact, directly, perverse.

5. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
(a) Any sexual practice that couldn't result in procreation.
(b) Sexual practices that don't include one member of each gender.
(c) Sexual activities outside matrimony.
(d) Any sexual practice not condoned by law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a procedure by which the confession came to be constituted in scientific terms?

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

3. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

4. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

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