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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 does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?
(a) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(b) Expunge sex from things that were said
(c) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.
(d) Control sex's free circulation in speech.

2. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) The theory that the more you try to prohibit something the more it self propagates.
(b) The historical theory that religious institutions controlled masses by assigning shame to sexuality.
(c) The theory that discussion of repressed emotions is the best way to experience freedom from them.
(d) The historical theory that sexuality was repressed and we are still trying to overcome it.

3. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Religious and cleansing.
(b) Regulated and polymorphous.
(c) Fundamental and natural.
(d) Rebellious and necessary.

4. What is the "discursive fact?"
(a) The need people experience to discuss illicit subjects.
(b) The tendency of discourse to enlighten.
(c) The way in which sex is put into discourse.
(d) The liberation attained through discussion.

5. 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) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(c) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(d) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?

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

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

5. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

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