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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, ,Chapter 1, Objective.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Fundamental and natural.
(b) Religious and cleansing.
(c) Regulated and polymorphous.
(d) Rebellious and necessary.

3. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(b) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(c) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.
(d) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.

4. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.
(b) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(c) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(d) It has undergone a recent revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

2. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

3. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

4. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

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

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