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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 4, Periodization.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"
(a) The belief propogated that without medical help, sexual maladies will worsen until they consume the subject.
(b) Without control of social institutions the population will slowly rid itself of sexual rules.
(c) Repression of sexuality degenerates with each generation.
(d) A heredity with maladies ended by producing a sexual pervert.

2. 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) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(d) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.

3. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?
(a) Control of the population vs expansion of perversions.
(b) Social law vs biological impulses that end in reproduction.
(c) Maintaining social law vs proliferating itself and controlling populations.
(d) Making marital bonds paramount vs liberating sexuality.

4. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(b) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(c) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(d) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.

5. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.
(b) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.
(c) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(d) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?

2. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

3. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

4. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?

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

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