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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 , Chapter 1, The Incitement to Discourse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "discursive fact?"
(a) The tendency of discourse to enlighten.
(b) The way in which sex is put into discourse.
(c) The need people experience to discuss illicit subjects.
(d) The liberation attained through discussion.

2. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(b) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(c) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.
(d) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.

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

4. Why is the author of "My Secret Life" an interesting example in Foucault's argument?
(a) Because he was part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.
(b) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.
(c) Because he represented the negative effects of repression.
(d) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.

5. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?
(a) Political.
(b) Technical.
(c) Economic.
(d) Domestic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

2. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

3. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

4. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

5. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?

(see the answer key)

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