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

2. 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) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(c) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(d) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.

3. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(b) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(c) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.

4. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(b) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(c) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.
(d) All of the above.

5. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?
(a) It is the most long-winded and impatient of societies.
(b) It is the most repressed.
(c) It is the most tolerant of sexual perversions.
(d) It is the best informed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

2. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?

3. What does Foucault say that the science of sex achieved in the nineteenth century?

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

5. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

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