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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"
(a) A general system of domination exerted by one group over another.
(b) A multiplicity of force relations immanent in the sphere in which they operate.
(c) A group of institutions and mechanisms to ensure the subservience of citizens of a given state.
(d) A mode of subjugation which has the form of rule.

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

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

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

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

6. What are the "reasons for being" of the deployment of alliance compared to the deployment of sexuality?
(a) Maintaining social law vs proliferating itself and controlling populations.
(b) Making marital bonds paramount vs liberating sexuality.
(c) Control of the population vs expansion of perversions.
(d) Social law vs biological impulses that end in reproduction.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

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) Rule of double conditioning.
(b) Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses.
(c) Rules of continual variations.
(d) Rule of immanence.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?

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

3. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?

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

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

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