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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 is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"
(a) Does the repression of sexuality lead to a concentration of power?
(b) Is sexual repression undone by discourse?
(c) Is sexual repression a historical fact?
(d) Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality a component of the repression itself?

2. Which public institution undertook to classify and manage all forms of "incomplete" sexual practices?
(a) The government.
(b) The church.
(c) The law.
(d) Medicine.

3. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
(a) It became increasingly specific in all spheres and dialogues.
(b) It became increasingly vulgar as it was embraced by the lower classes.
(c) Focus shifted from the married couple to "unnatural" sexuality.
(d) It was propagated as the only path to salvation.

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

5. What does Foucault mean by "we other Victorians?"
(a) We are trying to restore sexuality as it was during the Victorian era.
(b) We are continuing the progress of liberation from repression started by the Victorians.
(c) We are unable to willfully escape the supposed historical repression of sexuality.
(d) We are on the brink of the biggest change in sexuality since the Victorian era.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

2. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

3. Which of the following is NOT a mode of power that Foucault recognizes as being integral to sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about the treatment of sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

5. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

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