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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 were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?
(a) It set practicable boundaries for sexuality.
(b) It was successful in making the topic of sexuality taboo.
(c) It set up a barrier against sexuality that was too rigid and provoked a backlash.
(d) It created a multiplication of singular sexualities and pleasure power spirals.

2. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?
(a) It is in fact, directly, perverse.
(b) It is from a backlash provoked by hypocrisy.
(c) It was created by the imbalance of power mechanisms and sexuality.
(d) It is the result of erecting too large a barrier against sexuality.

3. What does Foucault say distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) A general prudishness of language.
(b) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(c) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
(d) Massive censorship.

4. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.
(b) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(c) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(d) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.

5. What is the "discursive fact?"
(a) The tendency of discourse to enlighten.
(b) The need people experience to discuss illicit subjects.
(c) The liberation attained through discussion.
(d) The way in which sex is put into discourse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?

2. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

4. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?

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

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