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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. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?
(a) That we derive sexual pleasure from it.
(b) That we are ashamed of our sexuality.
(c) That we feel we are being subversive.
(d) That we long for more understanding and help.

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

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

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(b) It has created a science of sexuality.
(c) It has created an understanding of our perversions.
(d) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.

5. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(b) It denounces the powers it exercises.
(c) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(d) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

2. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

3. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

4. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

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

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