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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Foucault NOT say is a derivative basis of power?
(a) Machinery of production.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Families.
(d) Political authority.

3. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Our accepted model of power mechanisms is too simple and unidimensional.
(c) Because the form of the power utilized was unique to sexuality.
(d) To prove that the power requisite for complete repression was present but not utilized.

4. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) All of the above.
(b) 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.
(c) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(d) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.

5. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It is a common perception regarding power in various mechanisms.
(c) It simplifies the mechanics of power.
(d) It gives us freedom in the form of resistance.

6. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"
(a) Because it follows the pyramid of influence in which all parties feel its effects.
(b) Because it has the priviledge of consolidating everything under its unity.
(c) Because it is produced from one moment to the next at every point.
(d) All of the above.

7. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?
(a) A single, all-encompassing strategy.
(b) One of reproductive function.
(c) There is no single one, but many.
(d) The matrimonial relations.

8. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It identified its will with the will of the law, acting through mechanisms of interdiction and sanction.
(c) By presenting themselves as a way of introducing order in the midst of other powers.
(d) By presenting themselves as agencies of regulation, arbitration and demarcation; formulated in terms of law.

9. 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.

10. 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) Rules of continual variations.
(b) Rule of double conditioning.
(c) Rule of immanence.
(d) Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses.

11. 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.

12. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?
(a) The groups which control state apparatus.
(b) Those who make pivotal economic decisions.
(c) At the restricted level where their tactics are inscribed.
(d) The caste which governs.

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

14. Which words would Foucault use to explain power?
(a) Random and nonsubjective.
(b) Linear and overt.
(c) Intentional and nonsubjective.
(d) Intentional and linear.

15. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
(a) It has brought sexual discourse into the home.
(b) It has unified social strategies into the family unit.
(c) Secure sexuality under law and give alliance control over sexuality.
(d) It has created multiple perversions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What institution sought to free sexual instinct from heredity, eugenics, and racism?

2. When does the alternate history that Foucault tells for sexuality start?

3. Which of the following would Foucault agree what the purpose for which the deployment of sexuality was first established.

4. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

5. What does the rule of immanence state?

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