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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?
(a) They were both struggling against power mechanisms out of their domain.
(b) Sex became something to say and to exhaustively put into words.
(c) They were both anomalies to science.
(d) Their actions were symptomatic of repression.

5. 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) The direct confrontation of a social taboo.
(d) Laying the groundwork for a meticulous scientific course of study.

6. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Extra-marital sex.
(b) Married couples.
(c) Children.
(d) Perversions.

7. 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.

8. 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 effective practice of removing sexual impetus.
(c) Anxiety and domination.
(d) The domination of authority figures and the repression of sexual practice.

9. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?
(a) Power is not derived primarily from repression.
(b) The discourse of sexual repression is part of the incitement to discourse on sex.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Sexual repression is not a historical fact.

10. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?
(a) It is fundamenal human nature.
(b) The expression of truth produces intrinsic modifications in the confessor.
(c) It is a vanishing ritual in western society.
(d) It creates truth in lieu of simply expressing it.

11. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(b) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(c) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(d) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.

12. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(c) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.
(d) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

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

3. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?

4. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

5. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

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