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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 about the ritual of confession?
(a) It is a vanishing ritual in western society.
(b) It creates truth in lieu of simply expressing it.
(c) It is fundamenal human nature.
(d) The expression of truth produces intrinsic modifications in the confessor.

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

3. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(b) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(c) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.
(d) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.

4. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(b) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.
(c) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(d) All of the above.

5. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?
(a) Publication.
(b) Scientia sexualis.
(c) Doubt.
(d) The confession.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

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

4. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

5. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the postulate of general and diffuse causality? How did it help sexual discourse spread?

2. According to Foucault, what affect has the supposed power of restriction and limitation had over sexuality?

3. What were the objectives of the the extensive laws regulating the actions of married couples in the eighteenth century?

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

5. How did the method of interpretation help solidify scientia sexualis?

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

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

8. What was "My Secret Life" and why was it relevant to Foucault's argument?

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

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

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