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

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

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

4. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) Public interest power mechanisms.
(b) A collective curiosity.
(c) A new mentality.
(d) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

3. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

5. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

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