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

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

3. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?
(a) It is an attempt to purge unwanted desires.
(b) It is constrained to the educated and powerful population.
(c) It is symptomatic of repression.
(d) It is a multiplicity of discourses produced by a many mechanisms and institutions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

2. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

3. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

4. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

5. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to Foucault, what was the purpose of the emerging analytical sexual discourse? Give examples.

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

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

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

7. What does Foucault say was the model for modern sexual discourse in the west? What elements of it remain?

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

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

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

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