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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. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(b) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.
(c) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.
(d) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.
2. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It was distinctly unpleasant to those receiving treatment.
(b) There was a sensualization of power.
(c) It recognized alternate sexualities as part of the essential nature of the person.
(d) All alternate sexualities were looked at as having the same root.
3. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?
(a) It came to a halt in the face of taboo.
(b) It has shown us the path to liberation.
(c) It has created a science of sexuality.
(d) It has created an understanding of our perversions.
4. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(b) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(c) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.
(d) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.
5. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.
(b) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.
(c) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(d) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
2. What does Foucault say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?
3. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?
4. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
5. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?
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