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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 did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(b) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(c) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(d) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.

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

3. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(b) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(c) It has undergone a recent revolution.
(d) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.

4. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.
(b) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(c) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
(d) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.

5. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Irruption of speech.
(c) Lifting of prohibitions.
(d) Transgressing laws.

6. 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 scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.
(c) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(d) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.

7. 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 created polymorphous sexualities.
(d) It caused an increase in religious ferver.

8. 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) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(c) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.
(d) Control sex's free circulation in speech.

9. What element of the confession has opened the pathway to explore existing domains?
(a) Saying how the act being confessed was done.
(b) The reconstruction of all individual pleasures.
(c) Saying what was done.
(d) Having moral impetus to truthfulness.

10. What does Foucault say that the science of sex achieved in the nineteenth century?
(a) The obscuration of truth about sex.
(b) The study of sex in a detached manner.
(c) Laying the groundwork for a meticulous scientific course of study.
(d) The direct confrontation of a social taboo.

11. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.
(b) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.
(c) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.
(d) Shame, repentance, and redemption.

12. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(b) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(c) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(d) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.

13. 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) Domestic.
(c) Political.
(d) Economic.

14. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(b) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.
(c) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.
(d) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.

15. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?
(a) Alternate sexualities were created by the society that governed the people.
(b) Specific alternate sexualities were caused by a wide variety of stimuli over an extended period of time.
(c) Immoral behavior in other areas would cause specific sexual aberrations.
(d) It is the principle of sex as the cause of any and everything.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

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