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

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

3. What can be said about the implantation of multiple perversions?
(a) It caused of the relations of power to sex and pleasure to branch out and create modes of conduct.
(b) It is sexuality taking revenge on excessively repressive law.
(c) It is the Western discovery of new vices.
(d) It is a paradoxical form of pleasure "to be endured"

4. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?
(a) It is constrained to the educated and powerful population.
(b) It is an attempt to purge unwanted desires.
(c) It is a multiplicity of discourses produced by a many mechanisms and institutions.
(d) It is symptomatic of repression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What explanation does Foucault say is historically applied to the evolution of sexuality after the fact?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

3. What does Foucault say is the "speaker's benefit?"

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

5. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?

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