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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Sex and morality.
(b) Secrets and shame.
(c) Truth and sex.
(d) Religion and sex.

2. What element of the confession has opened the pathway to explore existing domains?
(a) The reconstruction of all individual pleasures.
(b) Saying what was done.
(c) Saying how the act being confessed was done.
(d) Having moral impetus to truthfulness.

3. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(b) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(c) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(d) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.

4. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(b) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(c) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(d) There was a sensualization of power.

5. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) In the mental institute.
(b) Through the confession.
(c) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(d) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

2. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

3. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?

4. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

5. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?

Short Essay Questions

1. Foucault says the repression hypothesis should be abandoned; what does he purport that power structures seek over sexuality? Why?

2. Who was the peasant Jouy, and why was he significant to Foucault's argument?

3. Briefly define the changes that happened to confessions regarding sex in the seventeenth century, and how it affected sexual discourse.

4. What is the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality? How did it help spread sexual discourse?

5. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, what changes happened to the legal process of handling sexual offenses?

6. How did the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem effect the discourse on sexuality?

7. What is the postulate of general and diffuse causality? How did it help sexual discourse spread?

8. What is the medicalization of sexuality? What relationship does it create?

9. According to Foucault, what was the purpose of the emerging analytical sexual discourse? Give examples.

10. How did the institutions of education of children develop their own sexual discourse?

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