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

2. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?
(a) How did we come to be repressed?
(b) Why do we say that we are repressed?
(c) Why are we still repressed?
(d) What is the path out of repression?

3. Which of the following is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?
(a) Discovering the root cause of sexual behavior.
(b) Channeling and controlling sexual expression.
(c) The transference of the act onto the personality of those practicing the sexual expression.
(d) Surveillance of those likely to practice the form of sexual expression.

4. The medical examination, the psychiatric investigation, the pedagogical report, and family controls can be said to be characterized by which of the following?
(a) The domination of authority figures and the repression of sexual practice.
(b) Anxiety and domination.
(c) The effective practice of removing sexual impetus.
(d) Perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.

5. Which of the following did NOT happen to the nature of the confession?
(a) Imposed meticulous rules of self examination.
(b) Sexual details became central to complete the confession and receive penance.
(c) Became broad in nature to encompass thoughts, desires, and imaginings.
(d) It became more vague about any actual sexual act.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

3. How did the scheme for transforming sex into discourse become a rule for everyone?

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?

5. What can be said about the discourse on sex Foucault sets forth?

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