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

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

2. 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) Under the influence of a power structure, people will accept the regularity of the rules.
(c) Despite attempts to change or repress it, sexuality will continually return to a natural and common state.
(d) Power is most effective when channeled through previously accepted avenues.

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

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

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

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

7. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?
(a) Sex education in recognized institutions for children.
(b) The control of sexuality in children by parents and teachers.
(c) The system of medical pathologies describing sexual activity in children.
(d) The assertion that children engage in sexual activity, and that it is dangerous.

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

9. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?
(a) It reached all classes at the same time.
(b) It was created by the bourgeois to control the working class.
(c) It spread through the different mechanisms at different class levels.
(d) It was homogeneous.

10. 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 relations endowed with the greatest instrumentality.
(c) All of the above.
(d) An element of power capable of serving as a tool for the most varied strategies.

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

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

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

14. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.
(b) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
(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) It channeled many of the previously accepted forms of sexuality into new perversions.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?

2. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

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

4. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?

5. What does the rule of immanence state?

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