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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 was propagated as the only path to salvation.
(c) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.
(d) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.

2. What does Foucault say are the results of power exercised over sex?
(a) It has effectively confined sexuality to the home.
(b) It has disseminated and implanted polymorphous sexualities.
(c) It has defined and limited social sexual mores.
(d) It has obeyed a priciple of rigorous selection.

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

4. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.
(b) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(c) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(d) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.

5. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?
(a) Expunge sex from things that were said
(b) Extinguish words that rendered sex too present.
(c) Control sex's free circulation in speech.
(d) The creation of religious edicts against explicit references to sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the "discursive fact?"

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

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

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

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