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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Right of Death and Power Over Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(b) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
(c) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(d) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.

2. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?
(a) They were both anomalies to science.
(b) Their actions were symptomatic of repression.
(c) Sex became something to say and to exhaustively put into words.
(d) They were both struggling against power mechanisms out of their domain.

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

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

5. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(b) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(c) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(d) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

3. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?

4. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?

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

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