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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 2, The Perverse Implantation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.
(b) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(c) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.
(d) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.

2. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?
(a) Control sex's free circulation in speech.
(b) Expunge sex from things that were said
(c) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(d) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.

3. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.
(b) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(c) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(d) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.

4. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(b) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(c) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.
(d) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.

5. 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 part of the institutionalization of sexual discourse.
(c) Because he was a window into the popular social norms of the time.
(d) Because he was turning sex into discourse for his own pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did the classification of perversions have?

2. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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

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

5. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

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