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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 does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
(a) They were always considered criminals and sent to prisons or labor camps.
(b) They were perceived as the natural consequence to repression.
(c) Their neuroses were considered to be contagious, so they were shunned from society.
(d) They were perceived as scandalous, dangerous victims of disease.

2. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It denounces the powers it exercises.
(b) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.
(c) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(d) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.

3. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(b) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
(c) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.
(d) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.

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

5. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(b) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(c) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(d) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

3. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

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

5. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?

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