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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?
(a) Redemption from perceived sin.
(b) The battle against repression.
(c) The throwing off of unilateral power structures.
(d) Complex power mechanisms.

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

3. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?
(a) It spread through the different mechanisms at different class levels.
(b) It was homogeneous.
(c) It was created by the bourgeois to control the working class.
(d) It reached all classes at the same time.

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault use to describe sexuality?
(a) An obscure domain that knowledge tries to uncover.
(b) A natural impulse that power tries to hold in check.
(c) A furtive reality difficult to grasp and based in biology.
(d) A social and historical construct that creates a network which links knowledge and power.

5. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) The revolution was not against the laws (the seat of power) but against those that overstepped the legal framework. Thus power and law were still on the same side.
(b) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.
(c) All of the above.
(d) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.

6. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?
(a) None of the above.
(b) It is not affected by repression.
(c) It is created by prohibition.
(d) It finds ways to work through existing channels of power.

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

8. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Sexuality became seen as pathology.
(b) Sex became a secular and state concern.
(c) Laws started to prosecute aldulterers.
(d) Confessions started to include sex.

9. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?
(a) All of the above.
(b) An element of power capable of serving as a tool for the most varied strategies.
(c) A transfer point for relations of power between people.
(d) An element of power relations endowed with the greatest instrumentality.

10. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?
(a) What strategy they derive from.
(b) What moral divisions they accompany.
(c) What ideology they represent.
(d) What effects of power and knowledge they ensure.

11. Which of the following would Foucault agree what the purpose for which the deployment of sexuality was first established.
(a) All of the above.
(b) The body, vigor, longevity and descent of the upper class.
(c) The self affirmation of the affected class.
(d) The underscoring of the high value and price of the body, sensations, and pleasure.

12. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?
(a) The biological study of sexuality discovered hormones and thus explained perversions medically.
(b) The population openly accepted sexual discourse as necessary for a healthy sexuality.
(c) Perversions were defined and recognized.
(d) The focus on sexuality went from everlasting punishment after death to a medical problem of illness in life.

13. What does the rule of double conditioning state?
(a) For every power there is a specific resistance.
(b) None of the above.
(c) All local centers enter into an over-all strategy, and no strategy could have effect without support of local centers.
(d) Every power center and resistance have more than influence working upon them.

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

15. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?
(a) Making marital bonds paramount vs liberating sexuality.
(b) Social law vs biological impulses that end in reproduction.
(c) Maintaining social law vs proliferating itself and controlling populations.
(d) Control of the population vs expansion of perversions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?

2. What is the deployment of alliance?

3. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

5. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

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