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

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

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 4, Periodization.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?
(a) The notion that the women's bodies are extreme manifestations of male counterparts.
(b) The identification of the female body as being at the root of female mental instability.
(c) The notion that women's bodies are hightly sexual and was predisposed to medical pathology.
(d) The discovery that women's bodies created more emotional reaction than male bodies.

2. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?
(a) It was no longer concerned with just what the subject wished to hide, but what was also hidden from the subject.
(b) It made possible the link of forcing a difficult confession to a scientific practice.
(c) It says the ways of sex were obscure and elusive by nature.
(d) All of the above.

3. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?
(a) It is fundamenal human nature.
(b) It creates truth in lieu of simply expressing it.
(c) It is a vanishing ritual in western society.
(d) The expression of truth produces intrinsic modifications in the confessor.

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

5. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(b) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(c) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
(d) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the alternate history that Foucault tells for sexuality start?

2. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?

3. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?

4. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?

5. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

(see the answer key)

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