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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) Sexual repression is not a historical fact.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Power is not derived primarily from repression.
(d) The discourse of sexual repression is part of the incitement to discourse on sex.

2. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.
(b) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(c) Through the confession.
(d) In the mental institute.

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

4. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The law.
(b) The government.
(c) Medicine.
(d) The church.

5. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Fundamental and natural.
(b) Rebellious and necessary.
(c) Regulated and polymorphous.
(d) Religious and cleansing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element of the confession has opened the pathway to explore existing domains?

2. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?

3. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?

4. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Foucault, what affect has the supposed power of restriction and limitation had over sexuality?

2. What does Foucault say sexuality was like in the beginning of the 17th century?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the repressive hypothesis?

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

9. What are the three topics of doubt about the repressive hypothesis that Foucault will seek to explore?

10. Briefly define the changes that happened to confessions regarding sex in the seventeenth century, and how it affected sexual discourse.

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