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

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(b) The brothel and mental hospital.
(c) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and the lower class.

3. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was essential the state knew of it and the use made of it.
(b) It was an object of analysis and target of intervention.
(c) Campaigns tried to conform it into a concerted economic and political behavior.
(d) It was uniformly negated by existing power mechanisms.

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

5. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) That is was created as a way to centralize power.
(b) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(c) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(d) That it is a function of our over analytical society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

2. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?

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

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

5. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

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