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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 were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The brothel and mental hospital.
(b) The brothel and the lower class.
(c) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(d) The mental hospital and the unmarried.

2. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(b) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(c) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(d) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.

3. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(b) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(c) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(d) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.

4. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Family and love relationships.
(c) Justice and solem rites.
(d) Medicine.

5. What element of the confession has opened the pathway to explore existing domains?
(a) Saying how the act being confessed was done.
(b) Saying what was done.
(c) The reconstruction of all individual pleasures.
(d) Having moral impetus to truthfulness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

3. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

4. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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

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