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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 is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) How did we come to be repressed?
(b) Why are we still repressed?
(c) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(d) What is the path out of repression?

2. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?
(a) Pleasure was derived solely by the trangression of rules.
(b) They repressed and extinguished sexuality in children.
(c) They had a polarization of pleasure and power.
(d) They were a complicated network of power structures and mobile sexualities.

3. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?
(a) A collective curiosity.
(b) A new mentality.
(c) Public interest power mechanisms.
(d) Sensibility to new sexual boundaries.

4. What does Foucault NOT say about western society?
(a) It promises to liberate itself from the laws that have made it function.
(b) It is on the brink of a sexual revolution.
(c) It speaks verbosely of its own silence.
(d) It denounces the powers it exercises.

5. What does Foucault say was true about sexuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century?
(a) It was considered by all to be the ethical and moral challenge of the age.
(b) There was little secrecy, and openness and frankness about the illicit were common.
(c) There were high consequences for any deviation from the socially accepted mores of the era.
(d) All forms of sexuality were highly condemed by the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

2. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

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

4. What is the "repressive hypothesis?"

5. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

(see the answer key)

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