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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?
(a) It was ineffective at causing change.
(b) It never ceased to hide the thing it was talking about.
(c) It was closely tied to the ends needed by governmental needs.
(d) It was unaccepted by the general population.

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

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

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

5. 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) The concentration of wealth and education.
(c) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.
(d) Serfdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

5. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Foucault referring to by "a regulated and polymorphous incitement to discourse?"

2. What is the medicalization of sexuality? What relationship does it create?

3. What does Foucault say was the model for modern sexual discourse in the west? What elements of it remain?

4. What is the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality? How did it help spread sexual discourse?

5. What are ars erotica and scientia sexualis? How are they different?

6. Briefly define the changes that happened to confessions regarding sex in the seventeenth century, and how it affected sexual discourse.

7. What did the medicalization of the effects of confession promise, and how did that effect scientia sexualis?

8. What does Foucault mean by the "speaker's benefit?"

9. Foucault says the repression hypothesis should be abandoned; what does he purport that power structures seek over sexuality? Why?

10. How did the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem effect the discourse on sexuality?

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