The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Right of Death and Power Over Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is bio-power?
(a) The fostering of life.
(b) Techniques for controlling bodies and populations.
(c) The power of biological function to re-assert itself.
(d) None of the above.

2. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(b) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
(c) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(d) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.

3. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(b) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(c) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(d) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.

4. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(b) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(c) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(d) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.

5. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) The expression of morally repressed desires.
(b) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.
(c) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.
(d) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

2. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?

3. What does Foucault claim was the sovereign power from Roman times?

4. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

5. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?

(see the answer key)

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