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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(b) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(c) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(d) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.

2. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?
(a) Technical.
(b) Economic.
(c) Domestic.
(d) Political.

3. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) The church.
(d) The government.

4. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Instances of discursive production.
(b) Liberation from repression.
(c) Production of power.
(d) Propagation of knowledge.

5. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(b) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(c) That is was created as a way to centralize power.
(d) That it is a function of our over analytical society.

6. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?
(a) They were multi faceted and diverse.
(b) It's object was prohibition.
(c) It was primarily a legal and judicial.
(d) It was unified and focused.

7. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It subjugated the lower classes.
(b) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(c) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.
(d) It created polymorphous sexualities.

8. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?
(a) Because he represented the negative effects of repression.
(b) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.
(c) Because he was part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.
(d) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.

9. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.
(b) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.
(c) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(d) Management and marginal control of sexuality.

10. What does Foucault NOT say was true about the science of sexuality before Freud?
(a) It was devoted to strictly pursuing truth.
(b) It wasn't very rational or scientific.
(c) It concerned itself primarily with aberrations and perversions.
(d) It stirred up people's fears about the consequences of sexualities.

11. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(b) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(c) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(d) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.

12. 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 about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.
(d) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.

13. Which of the following is NOT a procedure by which the confession came to be constituted in scientific terms?
(a) Medicalization of the effects of confession.
(b) Moral exhortation.
(c) Clinical codification.
(d) The need of interpretation.

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

15. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(b) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.
(c) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.
(d) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

2. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?

3. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

5. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?

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