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

2. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Religion and sex.
(b) Secrets and shame.
(c) Truth and sex.
(d) Sex and morality.

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?
(a) Control sex's free circulation in speech.
(b) Expunge sex from things that were said
(c) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.
(d) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.

4. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.
(b) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.
(c) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.
(d) The expression of morally repressed desires.

5. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(b) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(c) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(d) They were treatable temporary illnesses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

2. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

3. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

4. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?

5. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

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