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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?
(a) Identify reproduction and sex as a matter of public importance.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Assign a pathogenic value to non reproductive sex.
(d) Provide fiscal incitement or restrictions regarding the fertility of couples.

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

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

7. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?
(a) Perversion-heredity-degenerescence.
(b) Demography-family-heredity.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Heredity- medicalization-normalcy.

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

9. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?
(a) Conflicting forces repress all other power mechanisms.
(b) Secrecy is in the nature of abuse of power.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Its success if proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

10. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?
(a) Complex power mechanisms.
(b) Redemption from perceived sin.
(c) The battle against repression.
(d) The throwing off of unilateral power structures.

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

12. 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) 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) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.

13. Who was Charcot?
(a) The psychiatrist who first started speaking overtly about sex in his work.
(b) A man who had his wife internned for life in a mental hospital for expressing pleasure.
(c) A simple minded farm hand taken to a mental hostpital for expressing sexuality.
(d) A researcher of sexuality in the late-1800s.

14. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.
(b) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(c) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down
(d) All of the above.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?

2. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?

3. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?

4. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?

5. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?

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