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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 does the rule of double conditioning state?
(a) For every power there is a specific resistance.
(b) Every power center and resistance have more than influence working upon them.
(c) All local centers enter into an over-all strategy, and no strategy could have effect without support of local centers.
(d) None of the above.

2. 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 gives us freedom in the form of resistance.
(c) It is a common perception regarding power in various mechanisms.
(d) It simplifies the mechanics of power.

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

4. 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.

5. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.
(b) The revolution was not against the laws (the seat of power) but against those that overstepped the legal framework. Thus power and law were still on the same side.
(c) All of the above.
(d) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?

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

5. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give an example of a tactical and strategic relationship.

2. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

3. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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