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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?
(a) The identification of the need of mental help to those of uncommon sexuality.
(b) The labeling as the perverse as the essence of a person.
(c) The study of sex as a biological and psychical condition with pathologies that could be normalized.
(d) The realization of pleasure in psychiatric discourse.

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

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 poor in resources, sparing in it's methods, and monotonous in tactics.
(c) It is dependent on the biological consequences of disobedience.
(d) It only has the power to say no and to produce limits.

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

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

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

7. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.
(c) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.
(d) 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.

8. Which words would Foucault use to explain power?
(a) Intentional and linear.
(b) Intentional and nonsubjective.
(c) Linear and overt.
(d) Random and nonsubjective.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

3. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

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

5. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?

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