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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) The production of sexuality.
(b) A struggle against sexuality.
(c) An attempt to mask the more indiscreet, conspicuous and intractable aspects of sexuality.
(d) An attempt to gain control of sexuality.

2. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?
(a) Idleness and obligation to preserve a healthy line of descent.
(b) Inbreeding and lower moral fiber.
(c) Financial difficulty and lack of education.
(d) Knowledge without resource.

3. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?
(a) It is juridical in nature, centered on nothing more than the statement of law.
(b) It is dependent on the biological consequences of disobedience.
(c) It is poor in resources, sparing in it's methods, and monotonous in tactics.
(d) It only has the power to say no and to produce limits.

4. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"
(a) The belief propogated that without medical help, sexual maladies will worsen until they consume the subject.
(b) Repression of sexuality degenerates with each generation.
(c) A heredity with maladies ended by producing a sexual pervert.
(d) Without control of social institutions the population will slowly rid itself of sexual rules.

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

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

7. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?
(a) What strategy they derive from.
(b) What effects of power and knowledge they ensure.
(c) What moral divisions they accompany.
(d) What ideology they represent.

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

9. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?
(a) The notion that women's bodies are hightly sexual and was predisposed to medical pathology.
(b) The notion that the women's bodies are extreme manifestations of male counterparts.
(c) The discovery that women's bodies created more emotional reaction than male bodies.
(d) The identification of the female body as being at the root of female mental instability.

10. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?
(a) It undermines and exposes power.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It transmits and produces power.
(d) It is both an instrument and effect of power.

11. 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 immanence.
(c) Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses.
(d) Rule of double conditioning.

12. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?
(a) The deployment of sexuality reduced the importance of the deployment of alliance.
(b) One is built upon rules and restrictions, and the other on mobile techniques of power.
(c) All of the above.
(d) One deals with relationships and the other with bodily sensations.

13. 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) Social law vs biological impulses that end in reproduction.
(c) Making marital bonds paramount vs liberating sexuality.
(d) Maintaining social law vs proliferating itself and controlling populations.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"

3. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?

4. Which of the following statements regarding power would Foucault likely agree with?

5. What does Foucault NOT say is a derivative basis of power?

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