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

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 recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(d) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.

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

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

5. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.
(b) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.
(c) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.
(d) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

3. What does Foucault NOT say was true about the science of sexuality before Freud?

4. What does Foucault NOT say is our perceived notion of confession?

5. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the three topics of doubt about the repressive hypothesis that Foucault will seek to explore?

5. What does Foucault say sexuality was like in the beginning of the 17th century?

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

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

8. According to Foucault, what was the purpose of the emerging analytical sexual discourse? Give examples.

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

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

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