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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 of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?
(a) It was unified and focused.
(b) It was primarily a legal and judicial.
(c) It's object was prohibition.
(d) They were multi faceted and diverse.

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

3. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It presupposed proximity.
(b) It was an analytical practice devoid of pleasure.
(c) It entailed examination and insistent observation.
(d) It required an intimate exchange of discourse.

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(b) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(c) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(d) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.

5. 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) To have the discourse not come from morality alone but from rationality as well.
(c) The expression of morally repressed desires.
(d) Rebellion against the subjugating powers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

2. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?

3. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

4. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

5. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?

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