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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 implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(b) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(c) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"
(d) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.

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

3. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.
(b) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.
(c) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(d) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.

4. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
(a) Liberation from repression.
(b) Production of power.
(c) Instances of discursive production.
(d) Propagation of knowledge.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?
(b) Is sexual repression a historical fact?
(c) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(d) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

3. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

4. What is the "discursive fact?"

5. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?

(see the answer key)

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