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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 distinguishes the last three centuries?
(a) Massive censorship.
(b) A general prudishness of language.
(c) A uniform concern to hide sex.
(d) The wide dispersion of devices and institutions that were invented for speaking about sex.
2. 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 process of restriction.
(d) It has undergone a recent revolution.
3. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) Management and marginal control of sexuality.
(b) Tolerance and acceptance of disparate sexualities.
(c) Repression and prohibition of sexuality.
(d) Proliferation and multiplication of sexuality.
4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(b) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.
(c) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(d) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
5. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(b) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(c) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(d) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.
Short Answer Questions
1. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?
2. What is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?
3. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
4. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?
5. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
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