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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 , Chapter 1, The Incitement to Discourse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(b) It subjugated the lower classes.
(c) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.
(d) It created polymorphous sexualities.

2. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) Serfdom.
(b) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.
(c) The partnership between church and state.
(d) The concentration of wealth and education.

3. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Medical intervention and clinical examination.
(b) Theoretical elaboration.
(c) Judicial.
(d) Penal.

4. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Propagation of knowledge.
(b) Production of power.
(c) Liberation from repression.
(d) Instances of discursive production.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They are the exclusive domain of adults.
(b) They are articulated around power relations.
(c) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.
(d) They are hierarchized and interlocking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

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

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

4. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

5. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?

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