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

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

3. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The government.
(b) The law.
(c) The church.
(d) Medicine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?

2. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

3. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

5. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Foucault says the repression hypothesis should be abandoned; what does he purport that power structures seek over sexuality? Why?

4. After the beginning of the 17th century, where was sexuality shifted to and for what ends?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the repressive hypothesis?

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