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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. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?
(a) Technical.
(b) Economic.
(c) Domestic.
(d) Political.

2. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It denounces the powers it exercises.
(b) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(c) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(d) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.

3. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.
(b) It subjugated the lower classes.
(c) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(d) It created polymorphous sexualities.

4. 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) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(c) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(d) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.

5. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(b) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.
(c) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(d) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

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

3. 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?

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

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

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