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

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

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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. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(b) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(c) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(d) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.

2. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) How did we come to be repressed?
(b) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(c) What is the path out of repression?
(d) Why are we still repressed?

3. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) That is was created as a way to centralize power.
(b) That it is a function of our over analytical society.
(c) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(d) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(b) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(c) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(d) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.

5. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(b) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.
(c) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(d) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

2. What is the "discursive fact?"

3. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

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

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

(see the answer key)

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