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

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

3. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?
(a) It was consigned to obscurity and universally stifled.
(b) A new regime of discourses regarding it came into existence.
(c) Precocious sexuality in children was no longer considered humorous.
(d) Discourse regarding it attempted to attain different results that it had previously.

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?
(a) School systems were unprepared for sexually precocious school aged children.
(b) Even the architectural layout of schools acknowleged sex was a constant preoccupation.
(c) In the eighteenth century the sex of the schoolboy became a public problem.
(d) The inner discourse of schools assumed the very present and active sexuality of children.

5. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?
(a) They were treatable temporary illnesses.
(b) They were caused by possession and were manifestations of evil.
(c) The perverted act becomes the person; the person does not demonstrate a habit but their essential nature.
(d) They were part of of the essential nature of humans that had to be constantly controlled.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?

5. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?

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