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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 refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(b) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.
(c) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.
(d) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.

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

3. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was driven underground and become occult.
(b) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.
(c) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(d) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.

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

5. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(b) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(c) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(d) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

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

3. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

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

5. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

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