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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 most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(b) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.
(c) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.
(d) Management and marginal control of sexuality.

2. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?
(a) Taboo, nonexistance, and silence.
(b) Shame, repentance, and redemption.
(c) Tolerance, modification, and acceptance.
(d) Condemnation, ridicule, and rejection.

3. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Religious and cleansing.
(b) Fundamental and natural.
(c) Regulated and polymorphous.
(d) Rebellious and necessary.

4. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.
(b) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(c) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?
(b) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(c) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?
(d) Is sexual repression a historical fact?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

3. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

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

5. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

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