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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. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It has created an understanding of our perversions.
(b) It has created a science of sexuality.
(c) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(d) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.

2. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(b) That it is a function of our over analytical society.
(c) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(d) That is was created as a way to centralize power.

3. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(b) Management and marginal control of sexuality.
(c) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.
(d) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.

4. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Shame-confession-redemption.
(b) Expression-tolerance-integration
(c) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(d) Repression-expression-liberation.

5. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(b) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(c) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(d) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

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

3. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?

4. 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?

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

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