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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the cycle of prohibition?
(a) The threat of a punishment that is the supression of sex.
(b) To deal with sex, power employs nothing more than a law of prohibition.
(c) Power constrains sex only through a taboo that plays on the alternative between two nonexistences.
(d) All of the above.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT represent a transformation the Foucault identifies after the nineteenth century?

2. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?

3. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality in the family unit? How does it interact?

2. How does Foucault use the French revolution to explain the interconnectedness of power and law?

3. How does Foucault claim monarchs of the middle ages persuaded the existing power centers to accept and participate in their power?

4. Explain the concept of juridico-discursive power. Where does Foucault say we perceive it to act?

5. What are the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

6. What does Foucault mean when he refers to the cyclical nature of power and law? Explain.

7. Explain what is meant by the statement that sexuality changed from a matter of death and sin to a matter of life and illness.

8. What role does psychiatry play in the deployment of sexuality and the repressive hypothesis?

9. How does Foucault define power? What is it like?

10. What role does discourse play in power?

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