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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. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(b) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
(c) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(d) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.

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

3. 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 mental hospital and the lower class.
(c) The brothel and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and mental hospital.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?

2. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

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

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

5. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

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