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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 does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"
(a) Speaking is an effective way to repression.
(b) Speaking gives the illusion of experience and knowledge.
(c) Speaking is a form of cleansing and purging.
(d) Speaking about something taboo is a transgression that gives the speaker a sense of power.

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

3. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?
(a) They were both struggling against power mechanisms out of their domain.
(b) They were both anomalies to science.
(c) Sex became something to say and to exhaustively put into words.
(d) Their actions were symptomatic of repression.

4. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(b) It denounces the powers it exercises.
(c) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(d) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.

5. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?
(a) It explains the shame many still associate with a sexual existance.
(b) That it is a function of our over analytical society.
(c) That it is part of a general discourse on sex since the seventeenth century.
(d) That is was created as a way to centralize power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

2. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

3. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

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

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