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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 direct confrontation of a social taboo.
(d) The study of sex in a detached manner.

2. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?
(a) Scientia sexualis.
(b) Publication.
(c) Doubt.
(d) The confession.

3. What is scientia sexualis?
(a) The biological science of reproduction.
(b) The study of aberrations, perversions, and other forms of alternate sexualities.
(c) The science of mastering the act of sexual pleasure.
(d) Procedures for telling the truth about sex which are adapted from confession.

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

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

6. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.
(b) Never has a society been more prudish.
(c) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.
(d) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.

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

8. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They are polarized.
(b) They cancel each other out.
(c) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(d) They turn against each other.

9. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(b) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.
(c) Management and marginal control of sexuality.
(d) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.

10. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(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) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.

11. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) The partnership between church and state.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) The concentration of wealth and education.
(d) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.

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

13. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.
(b) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(c) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(d) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.

14. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(b) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(c) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(d) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

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

3. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

5. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?

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