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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 is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(b) Management and marginal control of sexuality.
(c) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.
(d) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?
(a) The mental hospital and the unmarried.
(b) The mental hospital and the lower class.
(c) The brothel and the lower class.
(d) The brothel and mental hospital.

3. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?
(a) It witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities.
(b) It ushered in an age of increased sexual repression.
(c) It has created an imbalanced polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) Never has a society been more prudish.

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?
(a) Campaigns tried to conform it into a concerted economic and political behavior.
(b) It was uniformly negated by existing power mechanisms.
(c) It was an object of analysis and target of intervention.
(d) It was essential the state knew of it and the use made of it.

5. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Civil law.
(b) Christian pastoral.
(c) Canonical law.
(d) Cultural tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault refer to as the triple edict of puritanism?

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

3. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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