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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 modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(b) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.
(c) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(d) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.

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

3. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(b) It has undergone a recent revolution.
(c) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.
(d) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.

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

5. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.
(b) Management and marginal control of sexuality.
(c) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(d) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

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

3. Which of the following is NOT a procedure by which the confession came to be constituted in scientific terms?

4. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

5. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What mechanisms spread sexual discourse after the confessional? Give examples.

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

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

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

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