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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. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.
(b) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(c) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.

2. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(b) There was a sensualization of power.
(c) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(d) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.

3. What does Foucault say that the science of sex achieved in the nineteenth century?
(a) The obscuration of truth about sex.
(b) Laying the groundwork for a meticulous scientific course of study.
(c) The direct confrontation of a social taboo.
(d) The study of sex in a detached manner.

4. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(b) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.
(c) It was driven underground and become occult.
(d) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.

5. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(b) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(c) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(d) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?

3. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?

4. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the institutions of education of children develop their own sexual discourse?

2. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, what changes happened to the legal process of handling sexual offenses?

3. What does Foucault mean by "We Other Victorians?"

4. What is the relationship that Foucault defines between power and pleasure?

5. Who was the peasant Jouy, and why was he significant to Foucault's argument?

6. Per Foucault, what result came about from the "will to knowledge" with the taboo of sexuality?

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

8. How did the focus of sexual control change from the eighteenth to nineteenth century? Where was it and where did it shift to?

9. What is the repressive hypothesis?

10. What are the four modes of power discussed by Foucault?

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