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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(b) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(c) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(d) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.

4. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?
(a) It was no longer concerned with just what the subject wished to hide, but what was also hidden from the subject.
(b) It made possible the link of forcing a difficult confession to a scientific practice.
(c) It says the ways of sex were obscure and elusive by nature.
(d) All of the above.

5. 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) Civil law.
(b) Cultural tradition.
(c) Canonical law.
(d) Christian pastoral.

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

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

8. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The brothel and the lower class.
(b) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(c) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and mental hospital.

9. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was an object of analysis and target of intervention.
(b) It was essential the state knew of it and the use made of it.
(c) Campaigns tried to conform it into a concerted economic and political behavior.
(d) It was uniformly negated by existing power mechanisms.

10. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Theoretical elaboration.
(b) Judicial.
(c) Medical intervention and clinical examination.
(d) Penal.

11. 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) Domestic.
(c) Economic.
(d) Technical.

12. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) A new mentality.
(b) Public interest power mechanisms.
(c) A collective curiosity.
(d) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.

13. 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.

14. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?
(a) Discourse had to be found in the hidden nooks and crannies it existed in.
(b) There was just enough to feed the developing science.
(c) There was so little available discourse that much of the budding science was based on hypothesis and conjecture rather than experience or evidence.
(d) There was so much that the newly formed science of sex couldn't cope with it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

2. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

3. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

4. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

5. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

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