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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. Which of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?
(a) Power is not derived primarily from repression.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The discourse of sexual repression is part of the incitement to discourse on sex.
(d) Sexual repression is not a historical fact.

2. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) A collective curiosity.
(b) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.
(c) Public interest power mechanisms.
(d) A new mentality.

3. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(b) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(c) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(d) It is the Western discovery of new vices.

4. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(b) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(c) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(d) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.

5. 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 not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(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 almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?

2. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

3. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

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

5. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the repressive hypothesis?

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

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

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

5. How did the focus of sexual control change from the eighteenth to nineteenth century? Where was it and where did it shift to?

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

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

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

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

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

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