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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 is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Propagation of knowledge.
(b) Liberation from repression.
(c) Production of power.
(d) Instances of discursive production.

2. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?
(a) They have coded contents and qualified speakers regarding sex and children.
(b) They have multiplied forms of discourse on sexuality of children.
(c) They have imposed ponderous silence on the sex of children.
(d) They have established various points of implantation for sex.

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

4. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(b) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(c) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(d) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.

5. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?
(a) That we derive sexual pleasure from it.
(b) That we long for more understanding and help.
(c) That we feel we are being subversive.
(d) That we are ashamed of our sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

2. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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

4. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?

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

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