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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 the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) The historical theory that religious institutions controlled masses by assigning shame to sexuality.
(b) The historical theory that sexuality was repressed and we are still trying to overcome it.
(c) The theory that the more you try to prohibit something the more it self propagates.
(d) The theory that discussion of repressed emotions is the best way to experience freedom from them.
2. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?
(a) The codes were recognized by the church as a great moral necessity.
(b) The effectiveness of the codes was considered the battleground against vice and evil.
(c) The codes transferred from a religious base requiring exorcism to a legal base requiring reform.
(d) The severity of the codes diminished greatly and often deferred to medicine.
3. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(b) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(c) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(d) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
4. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Regulated and polymorphous.
(b) Fundamental and natural.
(c) Religious and cleansing.
(d) Rebellious and necessary.
5. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(b) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(c) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(d) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.
Short Answer Questions
1. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
2. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
3. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
4. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
5. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
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