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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. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.
(b) They have established various points of implantation for sex.
(c) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(d) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.

2. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) How did we come to be repressed?
(b) What is the path out of repression?
(c) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(d) Why are we still repressed?

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

4. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(b) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(c) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(d) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.

5. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(b) It has undergone a recent revolution.
(c) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(d) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

2. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

3. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

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

5. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?

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