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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 did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.
(b) Secrets told to him by friends.
(c) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.
(d) Sexual acts he heard in confession.

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

3. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) The historical theory that religious institutions controlled masses by assigning shame to sexuality.
(b) The theory that the more you try to prohibit something the more it self propagates.
(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.

4. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Transgressing laws.
(b) Irruption of speech.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Lifting of prohibitions.

5. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(b) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(c) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

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

3. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?

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

5. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

(see the answer key)

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