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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 would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?
(a) They only exist in the strategic field of power relations.
(b) They are inscribed in power as an irreducible opposite.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They are mobile and transitory.

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

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

4. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?
(a) It spread through the different mechanisms at different class levels.
(b) It was created by the bourgeois to control the working class.
(c) It reached all classes at the same time.
(d) It was homogeneous.

5. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?
(a) At the restricted level where their tactics are inscribed.
(b) Those who make pivotal economic decisions.
(c) The caste which governs.
(d) The groups which control state apparatus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?

2. 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?

3. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?

4. What institution sought to free sexual instinct from heredity, eugenics, and racism?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the spread of sexuality, as told by Foucault, refute the repressive hypothesis that sexuality was repressed in order to subjugate the working class?

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

3. In what form did sexuality first arise, and what was its intended purpose?

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

5. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

6. Is there disinterested knowledge? 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. How does Foucault use the French revolution to explain the interconnectedness of power and law?

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

10. What role does discourse play in power?

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