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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 , Chapter 1, The Incitement to Discourse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(b) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(c) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.
(d) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.

2. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(b) A general prudishness of language.
(c) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(d) Massive censorship.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(b) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?
(c) Is sexual repression a historical fact?
(d) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?

4. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"
(a) Speaking about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.
(b) Speaking gives the illusion of experience and knowledge.
(c) Speaking is an effective way to repression.
(d) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

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

4. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

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