Madness and Civilization Quizzes

Madness and Civilization Quiz #1

1 What is the name of the period Foucault studies?
The classical age

The ancient period

The romantic age

The modern age
2 In what language was Madness and Civilization originally written?
German

French

English

Italian
3 The classical age begins at roughly the end of which century?
9th

16th

20th

17th
4 When was the General Hospital founded in Paris?
1701

1540

1657

1721
5 What is the name Foucault gives to the vast influx of people into general hospitals?
The Great Bereavement

The Great Confinement

The Sudden Capture

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

Madness

Poverty

Criminality
7 Which period came right before the classical age?
Renaissance

Biblical

Modernity

Antiquity
8 What was the primary aim of the Great Confinement?
Praising the rich

Praising the religious

Separating the poor

Separating the mad
9 At the beginning of the classical age, poverty was primarily understood as …
An economic failure

A moral failure

A religious crisis

An opportunity
10 How did the confinement of the poor condition understandings of madness?
Ethical judgments related to cleanliness

Ethical judgments related to holiness

Ethical judgments related to productivity

Ethical judgments related to purity
11 What was the underlying condition of the Great Confinement?
Financial success

Moral crisis

Economic crisis

Religious revival
12 What was the primary object of confinement in the Middle Ages?
Poverty

Vagabonds

Madness

Leprosy
13 How was madness different from poverty?
It was a private secret

It was considered unethical

It was considered holy

It was a public spectacle
14 What images adhered to madness?
Animal

Pastoral

Holy

Religious
15 How did animal imagery affect the treatment of the mad?
They were more ethically treated

They were more humanely treated

They were more indifferently treated

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

Pinel and Montaigne

Tuke and Pinel

Bentham and Pinel
17 What was Samuel Tuke’s religion?
Quaker

Catholic

Buddhist

Jewish
18 What was the name of Tuke’s asylum?
Retreat

Recession

Renewal

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

Less psychological

Less religious

Less humane
20 What is the figure Tuke and Pinel share?
Medical personage

Religious priest

Medical patient

Prison warden
21 The medical personage is most nearly which of the following?
Doctor

Phantom

Warden

Priest
22 What does Stultifera Navis mean?
Ship of Nerves

Ship of Fools

Dawn of the Mad

Prison of Fools
23 What is major event that provides the beginning of Foucault’s study?
The founding of the Church

The founding of the General Hospital of Paris

The founding of Protestantism

The founding of Tuke's Retreat
24 What is the major event that provides the endpoint of Foucault’s study?
The confinement of prisoners

The liberation of prisoners from Bicêtre Hospital

The liberation of slaves

The rise of slavery
25 When did this final event happen?
1794

1567

1901

1822

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