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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 of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?
(a) They are the exclusive domain of adults.
(b) They replaced a former way of speaking about sex.
(c) They are hierarchized and interlocking.
(d) They are articulated around power relations.

2. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(b) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(c) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(d) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.

3. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?
(a) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(b) There was a marked increase in sexual predation and violence.
(c) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.
(d) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.

4. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Cultural tradition.
(b) Christian pastoral.
(c) Civil law.
(d) Canonical law.

5. What effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(b) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(c) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(d) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?

2. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?

3. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

4. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

5. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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