The Archaeology of Knowledge Quizzes

The Archaeology of Knowledge Quiz #1

1 When was Archaeology of Knowledge published?
1969

1945

1976

1959
2 In what language was the book first published?
German

French

English

Italian
3 Which of the following had Foucault written before Archaeology of Knowledge?
The History of Sexuality

Critique of Pure Reason

The Order of Things

The Age of Neoliberalism
4 Which of the following had Foucault written before Archaeology of Knowledge?
Madness and Civilization

Critiques of Governmentality

The History of Sexuality

History of Liberalism
5 Which of the following did Foucault write after Archaeology of Knowledge?
The Birth of the Clinic

History of Sexuality

The Order of Things

Madness and Civilization
6 What is a term for a method of doing history?
Autobiography

Autohistory

Historiography

Biography
7 Which philosopher does Foucault credit with de-emphasizing the role of individuals in history?
Socrates

Karl Marx

Aristotle

John Locke
8 What branch of philosophy deals with the study of knowledge?
Epistemology

Political theology

Metaphysics

Historiography
9 Which of the following is an example of the non-discursive domain?
Books

Speeches

Institutions

Memorabilia
10 Which of the following is an example of the non-discursive domain?
Publishing

Letter writing

Speech-writing

Political events
11 What is the word for an author’s collected works?
Miscellany

Biography

Historiography

Oeuvre
12 What is the word Foucault prefers to something “new,” like an invention?
Regular

Standard

Irruption

Original
13 What is the word Foucault prefers to the “old” or the seemingly non-inventive?
Original

Regular

Miscellany

Non-iterative
14 What word means the object that a word represents?
Symbol

Sign

Referent

Objective
15 What is another word for two non-compatible objects?
Signs

Inadequation

Referents

Partners
16 Complete the quote: “In our time, history is that which transforms documents into ________.”
Speech

Monuments

Words

Flesh
17 Which of the following corresponds with archaeology?
Hieroglyphs

Monuments

Documents

Speech
18 What might be contrasted with the “document”?
The written record

The event

The situation

The words recorded
19 What is Foucault’s word for a chain of related things?
Tradition

Document

Series

Monument
20 What is the major challenge facing contemporary historians?
Discontinuity

Stability

Lack of funding

The abudance of written records
21 What is another word Foucault uses to positively assess discontinuity?
Identity

Documentation

Simulacrum

Dispersion
22 What is the opposite of a “total” history?
Complete history

A speculative history

General history

A future history
23 What does general history study?
Marx

Egypt

Dispersion

Totality
24 Which term is associated with a discourse becoming a science?
Scientism

Epistemologization

Critique

Marxism
25 What did Marx study instead of individual people?
Mythology

Ancient orders

Religious practices

Modes of production