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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. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(b) It has created an understanding of our perversions.
(c) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.
(d) It has created a science of sexuality.

2. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(b) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(c) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.

3. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Publication.
(c) The confession.
(d) Scientia sexualis.

4. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) In the mental institute.
(b) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.
(c) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(d) Through the confession.

5. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(b) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.
(c) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(d) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?

2. 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?

3. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

4. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

5. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

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