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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 are the components of the regime that sustains discourse on sexuality?
(a) Shame-confession-redemption.
(b) Power-knowledge-pleasure.
(c) Expression-tolerance-integration
(d) Repression-expression-liberation.

2. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?
(a) A norm of sexual development was defined.
(b) The fact of speaking about sex became more important than the moral imperatives imposed.
(c) Legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied.
(d) Sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness.

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

4. Which of the many great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was inextricably interwoven with the discourse on sex?
(a) The concentration of wealth and education.
(b) The partnership between church and state.
(c) Serfdom.
(d) The emergence of population as an economic and political problem.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most effective derivation of power in regards to sexuality?

2. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

3. What does Foucault say is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

4. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

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

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