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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 is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?
(a) They were both struggling against power mechanisms out of their domain.
(b) Their actions were symptomatic of repression.
(c) Sex became something to say and to exhaustively put into words.
(d) They were both anomalies to science.

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

3. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) Public interest power mechanisms.
(b) A new mentality.
(c) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.
(d) A collective curiosity.

4. 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) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(c) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(d) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.

5. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.
(b) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.
(c) Secrets told to him by friends.
(d) Sexual acts he heard in confession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

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

3. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

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

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

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