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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 make clear the meaning of the process was first exercised on the ruling classes.
(b) They don't match what would be expected from a repressive cycle.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They show it was not homogeneous at all levels of society.

3. 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.

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

5. What institution sought to free sexual instinct from heredity, eugenics, and racism?
(a) The family unit.
(b) Psychiatry.
(c) Biology.
(d) Pedogogical institutions.

6. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?
(a) As something obscure that needs to be investigated and understood.
(b) As something with influence over every aspect of our lives.
(c) As having been repressed for centuries.
(d) As something not to be taken into account.

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

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

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

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

11. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?
(a) In the economically priviledged and politically dominant classes.
(b) In the uneducated working class.
(c) In the middle class.
(d) In the medical society.

12. 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) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.

13. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?
(a) It intensified the situation, then involved outstide help like doctors which caused discourse to increase.
(b) It channeled many of the previously accepted forms of sexuality into new perversions.
(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.

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

15. 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 created by the bourgeois to control the working class.
(c) It reached all classes at the same time.
(d) It was homogeneous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

2. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?

3. Which statement would Foucault agree with?

4. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?

5. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

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