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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what areas of our lives does Foucault say confession in integral in the west?
(a) Justice and solem rites.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Family and love relationships.
(d) All of the above.

2. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.
(b) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(c) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.
(d) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.

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

4. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?
(a) The discourse of sexual repression is part of the incitement to discourse on sex.
(b) Power is not derived primarily from repression.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Sexual repression is not a historical fact.

5. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?
(a) Ars erotica and medicalization.
(b) Psychoanalysis and biology.
(c) The erotic arts and science of sexuality.
(d) Scientia sexualis and biology.

6. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Children.
(b) Married couples.
(c) Perversions.
(d) Extra-marital sex.

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

8. What does Foucault say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?
(a) The information generated by one would cause advances in the other.
(b) There was no exchange between the two.
(c) They operated in similar fashions.
(d) Their theories were looked at with skepticism by the general public.

9. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(b) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.
(c) They have established various points of implantation for sex.
(d) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.

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

11. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(b) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(c) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.
(d) It was driven underground and become occult.

12. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(b) There was a sensualization of power.
(c) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(d) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.

13. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.
(b) Never has a society been more prudish.
(c) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.
(d) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.

14. 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.

15. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Cultural tradition.
(b) Civil law.
(c) Canonical law.
(d) Christian pastoral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

2. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

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

4. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

5. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?

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