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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 effect did the classification of perversions have?
(a) It caused more of the population to confess their unpopular desires.
(b) It created a system by which doctors were succesful at treating people with undesireable sexual habits.
(c) It gave the practices an analytical, visible, and permanent reality.
(d) It suppressed the practices almost into nonexistence.

2. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?
(a) Judicial.
(b) Theoretical elaboration.
(c) Medical intervention and clinical examination.
(d) Penal.

3. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Married couples.
(b) Extra-marital sex.
(c) Children.
(d) Perversions.

4. Which of the following can NOT be said of the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?
(a) It was an analytical practice devoid of pleasure.
(b) It entailed examination and insistent observation.
(c) It required an intimate exchange of discourse.
(d) It presupposed proximity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?

2. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

3. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

4. What does Foucault say happened when there was the apparent "silencing" of sex in discourse?

5. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"

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