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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 did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?
(a) The horror he felt at some of his sexual desires.
(b) Sexual acts he heard in confession.
(c) Secrets told to him by friends.
(d) A scrupulous and detailed account of his sexual episodes.

2. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(b) It has undergone a recent revolution.
(c) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(d) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.

3. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?
(a) The effective practice of removing sexual impetus.
(b) The domination of authority figures and the repression of sexual practice.
(c) Anxiety and domination.
(d) Perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

2. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?

3. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

5. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

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