Madness and Civilization Quizzes

Madness and Civilization Quiz #1

1 What is the name of the period Foucault studies?

The classical age

The modern age

The romantic age

The ancient period
2 In what language was Madness and Civilization originally written?

French

German

English

Italian
3 The classical age begins at roughly the end of which century?

9th

17th

16th

20th
4 When was the General Hospital founded in Paris?

1721

1701

1657

1540
5 What is the name Foucault gives to the vast influx of people into general hospitals?

The Sudden Capture

The Great Bereavement

The Great Confinement

The Prolonged Detention
6 All of the following were a part of the category of Unreason EXCEPT:

Madness

Poverty

Religion

Criminality
7 Which period came right before the classical age?

Biblical

Renaissance

Antiquity

Modernity
8 What was the primary aim of the Great Confinement?

Praising the rich

Praising the religious

Separating the mad

Separating the poor
9 At the beginning of the classical age, poverty was primarily understood as …

An opportunity

An economic failure

A religious crisis

A moral failure
10 How did the confinement of the poor condition understandings of madness?

Ethical judgments related to cleanliness

Ethical judgments related to purity

Ethical judgments related to productivity

Ethical judgments related to holiness
11 What was the underlying condition of the Great Confinement?

Moral crisis

Religious revival

Economic crisis

Financial success
12 What was the primary object of confinement in the Middle Ages?

Madness

Poverty

Vagabonds

Leprosy
13 How was madness different from poverty?

It was a public spectacle

It was considered holy

It was a private secret

It was considered unethical
14 What images adhered to madness?

Pastoral

Animal

Holy

Religious
15 How did animal imagery affect the treatment of the mad?

They were more ethically treated

They were more indifferently treated

They were more humanely treated

They were more cruelly treated
16 Which of the following is a pair of asylum creators?

Bentham and Pinel

Tuke and Pinel

Tuke and Augustine

Pinel and Montaigne
17 What was Samuel Tuke’s religion?

Catholic

Jewish

Buddhist

Quaker
18 What was the name of Tuke’s asylum?

Recession

Retreat

Renewal

Revival
19 What was one way Pinel was different from Tuke?

Less humane

Less religious

Less costly

Less psychological
20 What is the figure Tuke and Pinel share?

Prison warden

Religious priest

Medical patient

Medical personage
21 The medical personage is most nearly which of the following?

Warden

Phantom

Doctor

Priest
22 What does Stultifera Navis mean?

Ship of Fools

Ship of Nerves

Prison of Fools

Dawn of the Mad
23 What is major event that provides the beginning of Foucault’s study?

The founding of Protestantism

The founding of the Church

The founding of Tuke's Retreat

The founding of the General Hospital of Paris
24 What is the major event that provides the endpoint of Foucault’s study?

The confinement of prisoners

The liberation of slaves

The rise of slavery

The liberation of prisoners from Bicêtre Hospital
25 When did this final event happen?

1794

1567

1901

1822

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