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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Foucault say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?
(a) Their theories were looked at with skepticism by the general public.
(b) They operated in similar fashions.
(c) There was no exchange between the two.
(d) The information generated by one would cause advances in the other.

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

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

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

6. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(b) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(c) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(d) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.

7. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.
(b) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(c) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(d) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.

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

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

10. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?
(a) Expunge sex from things that were said
(b) Control sex's free circulation in speech.
(c) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(d) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.

11. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(b) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.
(c) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.
(d) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.

12. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) That is was created as a way to centralize power.
(b) That it is a function of our over analytical society.
(c) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(d) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.

13. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) Through the confession.
(b) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(c) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.
(d) In the mental institute.

14. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(b) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(c) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(d) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

2. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

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

4. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

5. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

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