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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Scientia Sexualis.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(b) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?
(c) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?
(d) Is sexual repression a historical fact?

3. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(b) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(c) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(d) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.

4. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) Analysis of sexuality.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) Medicalization of the sexually peculiar.
(d) Classification of perversions.

5. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"
(a) Speaking about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.
(b) Speaking gives the illusion of experience and knowledge.
(c) Speaking is an effective way to repression.
(d) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

2. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?

3. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?

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

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