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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 of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(b) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.
(c) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(d) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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