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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. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?
(a) Political.
(b) Domestic.
(c) Technical.
(d) Economic.

2. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?
(a) Morality.
(b) Preaching.
(c) Religion.
(d) The family unit.

3. 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 the lower class.
(c) The brothel and mental hospital.
(d) The mental hospital and the lower class.

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(b) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.
(c) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(d) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.

5. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.
(b) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(c) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(d) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

2. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

3. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

4. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

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

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