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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, ,Chapter 1, Objective.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(b) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.
(c) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(d) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.

2. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?
(a) Truth takes effect not on the receiver, but on the one from whom it comes.
(b) It's truth is not guaranteed by authority figures, but by the speaker.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The sexual discourse comes from below in the power structure.

3. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(b) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(c) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(d) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.

4. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?
(a) They were both struggling against power mechanisms out of their domain.
(b) Their actions were symptomatic of repression.
(c) They were both anomalies to science.
(d) Sex became something to say and to exhaustively put into words.

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(b) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(c) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(d) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?

2. What does Foucault say about the parallel sciences of the biology of reproduction and the medicine of sex in the nineteenth century?

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

4. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

5. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

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