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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 can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?
(a) It's object was prohibition.
(b) It was unified and focused.
(c) They were multi faceted and diverse.
(d) It was primarily a legal and judicial.

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

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

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

5. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Religion and sex.
(b) Secrets and shame.
(c) Truth and sex.
(d) Sex and morality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

2. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

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

4. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

5. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

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