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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 unmarried.
(d) The mental hospital and the lower class.

2. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.
(b) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.
(c) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(d) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.

3. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Transgressing laws.
(c) Lifting of prohibitions.
(d) Irruption of speech.

4. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"
(a) Speaking gives the illusion of experience and knowledge.
(b) Speaking is an effective way to repression.
(c) Speaking about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.
(d) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.

5. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was uniformly negated by existing power mechanisms.
(b) Campaigns tried to conform it into a concerted economic and political behavior.
(c) It was essential the state knew of it and the use made of it.
(d) It was an object of analysis and target of intervention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?

2. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

3. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?

4. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

5. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?

(see the answer key)

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