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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 of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Christian pastoral.
(b) Canonical law.
(c) Civil law.
(d) Cultural tradition.
2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(b) The brothel and mental hospital.
(c) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and the lower class.
3. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(b) What is the path out of repression?
(c) How did we come to be repressed?
(d) Why are we still repressed?
4. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?
(a) Confession frees,
(b) Constraint and power reduce one to silence.
(c) It is a power that constrains us.
(d) Truths demands to surface unless held down.
5. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(b) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(c) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.
(d) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
2. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?
3. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?
4. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
5. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
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