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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 public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The law.
(b) The church.
(c) The government.
(d) Medicine.

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

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

4. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Medical intervention and clinical examination.
(b) Theoretical elaboration.
(c) Judicial.
(d) Penal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

3. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

4. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

5. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

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