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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 define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?
(a) It has moved from the immoral to the moral.
(b) Sexuality has thrived in predefined relationships.
(c) It has been a chronicle of increasing repression.
(d) It has become more healthy and balanced.

2. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?
(a) It had to be taken charge of by analytical discourse.
(b) It was almost never spoken of by the educated and moral classes.
(c) It was not to be simply condemned, but managed.
(d) It had to be inserted to systems of utility and regulated for the greater good.

3. What does Foucault say are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(b) Shame-confession-redemption.
(c) Repression-expression-liberation.
(d) Expression-tolerance-integration

4. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?
(a) The family unit.
(b) Morality.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

3. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

4. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?

5. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

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