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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 family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(b) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.
(c) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.

2. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(b) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(c) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.
(d) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.

3. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.
(b) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(c) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(d) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.

4. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) A collective curiosity.
(b) Public interest power mechanisms.
(c) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.
(d) A new mentality.

5. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?
(a) It is repressed because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative.
(b) That it came with a blossoming of religious insight.
(c) That it was necessary to maintain public health.
(d) That it was an effect of the changing values of the industrial age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

2. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?

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

4. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?

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

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