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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 happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(b) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(c) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(d) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.

2. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) Public interest power mechanisms.
(b) A collective curiosity.
(c) A new mentality.
(d) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.

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

4. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?
(a) It is the most repressed.
(b) It is the best informed.
(c) It is the most long-winded and impatient of societies.
(d) It is the most tolerant of sexual perversions.

5. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.
(b) Secrets told to him by friends.
(c) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.
(d) Sexual acts he heard in confession.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?

3. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

4. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?

5. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the repressive hypothesis?

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

4. What is the classification of perversions, and what effect did it have?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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