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

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?
(a) Christian pastoral.
(b) Cultural tradition.
(c) Canonical law.
(d) Civil law.

3. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Children.
(b) Extra-marital sex.
(c) Married couples.
(d) Perversions.

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

5. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was driven underground and become occult.
(b) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(c) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(d) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

2. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

3. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

4. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

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

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