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

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

3. 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) All of the above.
(c) Sexuality is repressed by power.
(d) Power and sexuality are mutually exclusive.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Charcot?

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 was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?

5. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does discourse play in power?

2. What does Foucault have to say about resistance? Where can you find it?

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

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

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

6. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

7. Per Foucault, what are the principle traits of juridico-discursive power structures?

8. What is the hysterization of women's bodies?

9. What is the socialization of procreative behavior?

10. Explain the principles of negative relation and the cycle of prohibition in the juridico-discursive power structure.

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