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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 modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.
(b) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(c) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(d) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.

2. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?
(a) Sexuality was confined to the working classes as a tool of their subjugation.
(b) Sexuality was confined to the lower classes as a trait of their more animal like instincts.
(c) Sexuality was confined as a trait of the immoral and irreligious.
(d) Sexuality was confined to the home as a function of reproduction.

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

4. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?
(a) It led to the creation of the science of sexuality.
(b) It was driven underground and become occult.
(c) It was nearly extinguished by imposed silence.
(d) It became the domain of the upper classes and those in power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

2. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?

3. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

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

5. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?

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