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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 need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) To spread the cleansing of the confessional to all areas of life.
(b) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.
(c) The expression of morally repressed desires.
(d) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.

2. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(b) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.
(c) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.
(d) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.

3. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(b) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(c) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
(d) There was a sensualization of power.

4. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.
(b) It has created a science of sexuality.
(c) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(d) It has created an understanding of our perversions.

5. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The law.
(b) The church.
(c) Medicine.
(d) The government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

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

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

4. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

5. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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