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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 2, Method.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(b) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(c) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(d) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.

2. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(b) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(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. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.
(b) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(c) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(d) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

2. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

3. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?

4. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?

5. 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?

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