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

2. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(b) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.
(c) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.
(d) They have established various points of implantation for sex.

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

4. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Criminal justice.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Pedagogy.
(d) Monarchy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

2. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

3. What does Foucault define as one of the most valued techniques of the West for producing truth?

4. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Per Foucault, what result came about from the "will to knowledge" with the taboo of sexuality?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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