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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 is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?
(a) It is the best informed.
(b) It is the most tolerant of sexual perversions.
(c) It is the most long-winded and impatient of societies.
(d) It is the most repressed.

2. 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 had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(d) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.

3. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Repression-expression-liberation.
(b) Shame-confession-redemption.
(c) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(d) Expression-tolerance-integration

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

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(b) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(c) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(d) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

4. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

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

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