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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 effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(b) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(c) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.
(d) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.

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

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

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(b) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(c) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(d) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?

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

3. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

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

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

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