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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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) All of the above.
(d) It says the ways of sex were obscure and elusive by nature.

6. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Shame-confession-redemption.
(b) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(c) Expression-tolerance-integration
(d) Repression-expression-liberation.

7. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?
(a) Perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.
(b) The domination of authority figures and the repression of sexual practice.
(c) Anxiety and domination.
(d) The effective practice of removing sexual impetus.

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

9. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?
(a) Confession frees,
(b) Constraint and power reduce one to silence.
(c) It is a power that constrains us.
(d) Truths demands to surface unless held down.

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

11. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?
(a) It was closely tied to the ends needed by governmental needs.
(b) It was ineffective at causing change.
(c) It was unaccepted by the general population.
(d) It never ceased to hide the thing it was talking about.

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

13. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Truth and sex.
(b) Secrets and shame.
(c) Sex and morality.
(d) Religion and sex.

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

15. 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) Lifting of prohibitions.
(c) Transgressing laws.
(d) Irruption of speech.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

4. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

5. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

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