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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Generated perversions.
(c) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.
(d) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.

3. 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 seventeenth century.
(b) The nineteenth century.
(c) The advent of prohibitions.
(d) The loosening of the mechanism of repression.

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

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

6. Which of the following is NOT one of the three successive stages by which sexuality penetrated the population at large?
(a) The movement for the "moralization of the poorer classes."
(b) Juridical and medical control of perversions.
(c) The rise of the importance of confession for a moral existence.
(d) Birth control.

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

8. What does Foucault say about resistance?
(a) There is a single source of all resistence.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It derives from a few heterogeneous principles.
(d) There are points of it present everywhere in the power network.

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

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

11. What does Foucault say about our perception that the mechanisms of power are one-sided and act on us from above?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It simplifies the mechanics of power.
(c) It gives us freedom in the form of resistance.
(d) It is a common perception regarding power in various mechanisms.

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

13. Which statement would Foucault agree with?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Where there is power, there is resistance.
(c) Power relationships depend on a multiplicity of points of resistance.
(d) Resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.

14. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?
(a) The welfare of future generations.
(b) The health and well being of the body.
(c) The political influence.
(d) The soul.

15. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
(a) It has created multiple perversions.
(b) Secure sexuality under law and give alliance control over sexuality.
(c) It has brought sexual discourse into the home.
(d) It has unified social strategies into the family unit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?

2. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?

3. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

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

5. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?

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