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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 does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?
(a) It has undergone a recent revolution.
(b) It has undergone a process of restriction.
(c) It has been subjected to a mechanism of increasing incitement.
(d) It has gradually started to erode the power paradigm.

2. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?
(a) Through sermons delivered at church to the masses.
(b) By the popularization of psychoanalysis and counseling.
(c) In the mental institute.
(d) Through the confession.

3. What best describes the incitement to discourse?
(a) Fundamental and natural.
(b) Regulated and polymorphous.
(c) Rebellious and necessary.
(d) Religious and cleansing.

4. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?
(a) They seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another.
(b) They are polarized.
(c) They turn against each other.
(d) They cancel each other out.

5. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?
(a) Analytical sexual discourse was meant to yield displacement, intensification, reorientation, and modification of desire.
(b) Western man has been drawn for three centuries to the task of telling everything concerning his sex.
(c) Since the classical age there has been an optimization and valorization of sexual discourse.
(d) The propagation of sexual discourse was the pivotal factor in the re-establishing of socio economic boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

3. 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?

4. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?

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

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