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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 not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(b) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.
(c) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(d) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.

2. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Liberation from repression.
(b) Propagation of knowledge.
(c) Instances of discursive production.
(d) Production of power.

3. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(b) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(c) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(d) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.

4. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?
(a) Because he was part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.
(b) Because he represented the negative effects of repression.
(c) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.
(d) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

5. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?

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