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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. 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 had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(c) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.
(d) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.

2. 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.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(b) Is sexual repression a historical fact?
(c) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?
(d) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?

4. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(b) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.
(c) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(d) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.

5. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(b) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(c) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.
(d) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the "discursive fact?"

3. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

4. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

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

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