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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?
(a) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.
(b) Because he represented the negative effects of repression.
(c) Because he was part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.
(d) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.

3. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(b) It has created an understanding of our perversions.
(c) It has created a science of sexuality.
(d) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?
(a) Transgressing laws.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Lifting of prohibitions.
(d) Irruption of speech.

12. What is the "discursive fact?"
(a) The need people experience to discuss illicit subjects.
(b) The way in which sex is put into discourse.
(c) The tendency of discourse to enlighten.
(d) The liberation attained through discussion.

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

14. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?
(a) Discourse had to be found in the hidden nooks and crannies it existed in.
(b) There was so little available discourse that much of the budding science was based on hypothesis and conjecture rather than experience or evidence.
(c) There was just enough to feed the developing science.
(d) There was so much that the newly formed science of sex couldn't cope with it.

15. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?
(a) Oppositional.
(b) Spiral.
(c) Mobile and nebulous.
(d) Unidirectional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

2. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?

3. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

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

5. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?

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