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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 best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Rebellious and necessary.
(b) Fundamental and natural.
(c) Regulated and polymorphous.
(d) Religious and cleansing.

2. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?
(a) Specific alternate sexualities were caused by a wide variety of stimuli over an extended period of time.
(b) It is the principle of sex as the cause of any and everything.
(c) Immoral behavior in other areas would cause specific sexual aberrations.
(d) Alternate sexualities were created by the society that governed the people.

3. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They are polarized.
(b) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(c) They turn against each other.
(d) They cancel each other out.

4. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.
(b) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.
(c) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(d) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.

5. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?
(a) Unidirectional.
(b) Spiral.
(c) Mobile and nebulous.
(d) Oppositional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

3. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

4. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

5. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

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

3. What are the four modes of power discussed by Foucault?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality? How did it help spread sexual discourse?

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

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

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