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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.
(b) They are articulated around power relations.
(c) They are the exclusive domain of adults.
(d) They are hierarchized and interlocking.

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

3. 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.

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

5. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(b) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.
(c) It denounces the powers it exercises.
(d) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.

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

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

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

9. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(b) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(c) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.
(d) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.

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

11. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.
(b) They have established various points of implantation for sex.
(c) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(d) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "discursive fact?"

2. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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

4. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

5. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?

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