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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"
(a) The belief propogated that without medical help, sexual maladies will worsen until they consume the subject.
(b) Repression of sexuality degenerates with each generation.
(c) Without control of social institutions the population will slowly rid itself of sexual rules.
(d) A heredity with maladies ended by producing a sexual pervert.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the negative relation of power and sexuality?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Power and sexuality are mutually exclusive.
(c) Sexuality is repressed by power.
(d) The effects of power take the form of limit and lack.

3. Which of the following is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(b) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?
(c) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?
(d) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?

4. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.
(b) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down
(c) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(d) All of the above.

5. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?
(a) The control of sexuality in children by parents and teachers.
(b) The assertion that children engage in sexual activity, and that it is dangerous.
(c) Sex education in recognized institutions for children.
(d) The system of medical pathologies describing sexual activity in children.

6. Why are the chronological reminders of techniques and time line of the deployment of sexuality important to the theory laid out by Foucault?
(a) They don't match what would be expected from a repressive cycle.
(b) They show it was not homogeneous at all levels of society.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They make clear the meaning of the process was first exercised on the ruling classes.

7. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?
(a) A growth of methods and procedures.
(b) Perpetual inventiveness of techniques.
(c) Growth in scope and complexity.
(d) All of the above.

8. What do the rules of continual variations state?
(a) There are an unlimited number of possible power relationships.
(b) Reistance arises from changing sources even when it remains constant.
(c) Each representation of power is unique and varying from those surrounding it.
(d) Power manifests itself in matrices of transformations, and not static relationships.

9. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?
(a) They are tactical elements or blocks operating in force relations.
(b) There can exist different and even contradictory discourses within the same strategy.
(c) None of the above.
(d) There is a discourse of power and one running counter to it.

10. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?
(a) Knowledge generates discourse, which manifests power.
(b) Discourse is multifaceted form of power.
(c) Every power manifests itself as new discourse.
(d) Discourse joins power and knowledge together, and its tactics are variable and changing.

11. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?
(a) They are inscribed in power as an irreducible opposite.
(b) They only exist in the strategic field of power relations.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They are mobile and transitory.

12. Which of the rules regarding power and resistance is represented by the following example? In the nineteenth century the sex of a child was discussed between parents and educators or doctors. However, through modifications and shifts now the sexuality of a child is discussed between the child and a doctor with the sexuality of the parents called into question.
(a) Rule of double conditioning.
(b) Rules of continual variations.
(c) Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses.
(d) Rule of immanence.

13. What does Foucault say about resistance?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It derives from a few heterogeneous principles.
(c) There are points of it present everywhere in the power network.
(d) There is a single source of all resistence.

14. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?
(a) The welfare of future generations.
(b) The soul.
(c) The health and well being of the body.
(d) The political influence.

15. Which of the following statements regarding power would Foucault likely agree with?
(a) Power is not something that is acquired, seized, or shared.
(b) Relations of power are not in a position of exteriority with respect to other types of relationships.
(c) Power comes from below.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT represent a transformation the Foucault identifies after the nineteenth century?

2. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?

3. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the cycle of prohibition?

4. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?

5. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?

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