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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 explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(b) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(c) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.
(d) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.

2. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?
(a) The format of the confessional is our best remedy to repression.
(b) Scientia sexualis is a more valid and evolved pursuit of truth than ars erotica.
(c) Sexuality has been repressed by the general consent of the populace.
(d) Western societies did not manifest the movement of a power that was essentially repressive.

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) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(d) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.

4. 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.

5. 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) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(c) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(d) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

2. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

3. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

4. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

5. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

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