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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?
(a) That we long for more understanding and help.
(b) That we feel we are being subversive.
(c) That we derive sexual pleasure from it.
(d) That we are ashamed of our sexuality.

3. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.
(b) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.
(c) A norm of sexual development was defined.
(d) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.

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

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

6. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(b) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(c) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.
(d) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.

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

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

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

10. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) Medicalization of the sexually peculiar.
(b) Classification of perversions.
(c) Analysis of sexuality.
(d) Prohibition.

11. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?
(a) It has been a chronicle of increasing repression.
(b) It has become more healthy and balanced.
(c) It has moved from the immoral to the moral.
(d) Sexuality has thrived in predefined relationships.

12. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(b) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(c) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.

13. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(b) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(c) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(d) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.

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

15. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) How did we come to be repressed?
(b) What is the path out of repression?
(c) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(d) Why are we still repressed?

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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

3. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?

4. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

5. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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