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

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

3. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?
(a) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.
(b) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.
(c) Regulation helped spread the sexual discourse and hence sexuality.
(d) Generated perversions.

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

5. Where would techniques of repression of sexuality first appear?
(a) Uniformally across society.
(b) In the religious of the upper class.
(c) In the educated middle class.
(d) In the labor class.

6. Which of the following does NOT represent a transformation the Foucault identifies after the nineteenth century?
(a) Sexuality was was moved into the strictly private sector.
(b) Biological responsibility was assigned to sex.
(c) The medicine of sex was set apart from the medicine of the body.
(d) The medicine of perversions and programs of eugenics.

7. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Targets for ventures into knowledge that correspond to four strategies.
(c) Tactical materializations of psychiatric power.
(d) Pathologies recognized and treated in the nineteenth century.

8. 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) 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?
(c) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(d) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?

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

10. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?
(a) Liberate from repression.
(b) Uphold the rules of alliance.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Undercut sexual regulation.

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

12. 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?
(a) The advent of prohibitions.
(b) The seventeenth century.
(c) The loosening of the mechanism of repression.
(d) The nineteenth century.

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

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

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) It intensified the situation, then involved outstide help like doctors which caused discourse to increase.
(c) None of the above.
(d) It channeled many of the previously accepted forms of sexuality into new perversions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?

2. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

3. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?

4. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?

5. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

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