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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 simplifies the mechanics of power.
(c) It is a common perception regarding power in various mechanisms.
(d) It gives us freedom in the form of resistance.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?
(a) It is an injunction of nonexistance, nonmanifestation, and silence.
(b) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.
(c) It affirms that a thing is not permitted.
(d) All of the above.

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

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

8. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?
(a) Power lays down the rules for sexuality, defining the licit and the illicit and is maintained through language.
(b) Despite attempts to change or repress it, sexuality will continually return to a natural and common state.
(c) Under the influence of a power structure, people will accept the regularity of the rules.
(d) Power is most effective when channeled through previously accepted avenues.

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

11. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"
(a) A general system of domination exerted by one group over another.
(b) A multiplicity of force relations immanent in the sphere in which they operate.
(c) A group of institutions and mechanisms to ensure the subservience of citizens of a given state.
(d) A mode of subjugation which has the form of rule.

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

13. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:
(a) All of the above.
(b) To anchor sexuality and give it support.
(c) Allow alliance and sexuality to effect each other.
(d) To be a social structure that restrains sexuality.

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

15. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?
(a) Western societies did not manifest the movement of a power that was essentially repressive.
(b) Sexuality has been repressed by the general consent of the populace.
(c) The format of the confessional is our best remedy to repression.
(d) Scientia sexualis is a more valid and evolved pursuit of truth than ars erotica.

Short Answer Questions

1. If one tries to define the history of sexuality by mechanisms of repression, there are two "ruptures" that Foucault identifies and says warrants further investigation. Which of the following is NOT either a description of one of the ruptures or the time period it took place?

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

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

4. Which statement would Foucault agree with?

5. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?

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