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

2. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?
(a) Oppositional.
(b) Unidirectional.
(c) Spiral.
(d) Mobile and nebulous.

3. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.
(b) The partnership between church and state.
(c) Serfdom.
(d) The concentration of wealth and education.

4. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It was driven underground and become occult.
(b) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(c) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.
(d) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.

5. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(b) It subjugated the lower classes.
(c) It created polymorphous sexualities.
(d) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

2. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

3. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

5. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

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