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

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

3. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(b) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(c) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.
(d) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.

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

5. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"
(a) Speaking is an effective way to repression.
(b) Speaking about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.
(c) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.
(d) Speaking gives the illusion of experience and knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

2. What is the "discursive fact?"

3. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

4. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

5. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

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