The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 2, Method.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?
(a) Western societies did not manifest the movement of a power that was essentially repressive.
(b) Sexuality has been repressed by the general consent of the populace.
(c) Scientia sexualis is a more valid and evolved pursuit of truth than ars erotica.
(d) The format of the confessional is our best remedy to repression.

3. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.
(d) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down

4. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(b) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(c) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(d) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.

5. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) The theory that discussion of repressed emotions is the best way to experience freedom from them.
(b) The historical theory that religious institutions controlled masses by assigning shame to sexuality.
(c) The historical theory that sexuality was repressed and we are still trying to overcome it.
(d) The theory that the more you try to prohibit something the more it self propagates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

2. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

3. What does Foucault say about resistance?

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

5. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?

(see the answer key)

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