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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 about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(b) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.
(c) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.
(d) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.

2. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As having been repressed for centuries.
(b) As something not to be taken into account.
(c) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.
(d) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.

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

4. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.
(b) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(c) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(d) It is in fact, directly, perverse.

5. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?
(a) Western societies did not manifest the movement of a power that was essentially repressive.
(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) The format of the confessional is our best remedy to repression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?

2. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

3. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

5. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

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