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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 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.

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(b) The brothel and mental hospital.
(c) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and the lower class.

3. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(b) What is the path out of repression?
(c) How did we come to be repressed?
(d) Why are we still repressed?

4. 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) Attendance at religious institutions spiked.
(c) There was a discursive explosion of institutionalized sexual discourse.
(d) People became less informed and were more easily subjugated.

5. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?
(a) It confined sexuality to the home between married couples.
(b) It caused an increase in religious ferver.
(c) It subjugated the lower classes.
(d) It created polymorphous sexualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

2. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

3. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?

4. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

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