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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. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.
(c) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.
(d) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.

2. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) That it is a function of our over analytical society.
(b) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(c) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(d) That is was created as a way to centralize power.

3. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(b) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(c) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(d) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.

4. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?
(a) Any sexual practice not condoned by law.
(b) Any sexual practice that couldn't result in procreation.
(c) Sexual activities outside matrimony.
(d) Sexual practices that don't include one member of each gender.

5. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(b) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(c) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(d) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

3. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

4. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

5. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the repressive hypothesis?

6. How did the institutions of education of children develop their own sexual discourse?

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

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

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

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

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