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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?
(a) Growth in scope and complexity.
(b) A growth of methods and procedures.
(c) Perpetual inventiveness of techniques.
(d) All of the above.

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the negative relation of power and sexuality?
(a) Power and sexuality are mutually exclusive.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Sexuality is repressed by power.
(d) The effects of power take the form of limit and lack.

5. What does the rule of double conditioning state?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Every power center and resistance have more than influence working upon them.
(c) For every power there is a specific resistance.
(d) All local centers enter into an over-all strategy, and no strategy could have effect without support of local centers.

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

7. When does the alternate history that Foucault tells for sexuality start?
(a) The eighteenth century.
(b) The development of the feudal system.
(c) The advent of psychoanalysis.
(d) The Lateran council of medieval Christianity.

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

9. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?
(a) The notion that the women's bodies are extreme manifestations of male counterparts.
(b) The notion that women's bodies are hightly sexual and was predisposed to medical pathology.
(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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement would Foucault agree with?

2. Which of the following would Foucault agree what the purpose for which the deployment of sexuality was first established.

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

4. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?

5. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?

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