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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the deployment of alliance?
(a) The tendency of strategies to work together under power.
(b) A system of rules and regulations based in kinship ties and marital bonds.
(c) None of the above.
(d) The unification effect of the repression of sexuality.

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) Every power manifests itself as new discourse.
(d) Discourse is multifaceted form of power.

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

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

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

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

7. Which of the following is NOT one of the three successive stages by which sexuality penetrated the population at large?
(a) Birth control.
(b) The movement for the "moralization of the poorer classes."
(c) Juridical and medical control of perversions.
(d) The rise of the importance of confession for a moral existence.

8. When sexuality came to demand the surveillance of the population where did it expand?
(a) Demography.
(b) Medicine.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Pedagogy.

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

10. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?
(a) Its success if proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
(b) Conflicting forces repress all other power mechanisms.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Secrecy is in the nature of abuse of power.

11. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(b) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.
(c) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
(d) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.

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

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

14. When does the alternate history that Foucault tells for sexuality start?
(a) The advent of psychoanalysis.
(b) The eighteenth century.
(c) The development of the feudal system.
(d) The Lateran council of medieval Christianity.

15. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?
(a) It limited the discussion of sexuality in the family unit and so drove it to outside relations like doctors.
(b) None of the above.
(c) It intensified the situation, then involved outstide help like doctors which caused discourse to increase.
(d) It channeled many of the previously accepted forms of sexuality into new perversions.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?

2. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?

3. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?

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

5. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

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