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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(b) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(c) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(d) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.

2. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Religious and cleansing.
(b) Regulated and polymorphous.
(c) Fundamental and natural.
(d) Rebellious and necessary.

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

4. 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) The information generated by one would cause advances in the other.
(c) There was no exchange between the two.
(d) They operated in similar fashions.

5. What does Foucault say are joined in confession in the West?
(a) Truth and sex.
(b) Secrets and shame.
(c) Sex and morality.
(d) Religion and sex.

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

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

8. 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) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.
(b) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(c) Control sex's free circulation in speech.
(d) Expunge sex from things that were said

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

10. 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 mental hospital and the lower class.
(c) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(d) The brothel and the lower class.

11. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.
(b) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.
(c) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.
(d) A norm of sexual development was defined.

12. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) What is the path out of repression?
(b) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(c) Why are we still repressed?
(d) How did we come to be repressed?

13. 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 long for more understanding and help.
(c) That we feel we are being subversive.
(d) That we are ashamed of our sexuality.

14. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(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) All of the above.

15. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?
(a) It made possible the link of forcing a difficult confession to a scientific practice.
(b) It was no longer concerned with just what the subject wished to hide, but what was also hidden from the subject.
(c) It says the ways of sex were obscure and elusive by nature.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

2. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

3. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?

4. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

5. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

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