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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 reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(b) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.
(c) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(d) It is in fact, directly, perverse.

2. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They are hierarchized and interlocking.
(b) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.
(c) They are articulated around power relations.
(d) They are the exclusive domain of adults.

3. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.
(b) The expression of morally repressed desires.
(c) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.
(d) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.

4. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(b) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(c) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(d) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

4. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

5. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the medicalization of the effects of confession promise, and how did that effect scientia sexualis?

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

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

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

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

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

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