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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. 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.
(a) Rule of double conditioning.
(b) Rules of continual variations.
(c) Rule of immanence.
(d) Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses.

2. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?
(a) There is no single one, but many.
(b) A single, all-encompassing strategy.
(c) One of reproductive function.
(d) The matrimonial relations.

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

4. 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) The rise of the importance of confession for a moral existence.
(c) Birth control.
(d) Juridical and medical control of perversions.

5. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?
(a) The notion that the women's bodies are extreme manifestations of male counterparts.
(b) The discovery that women's bodies created more emotional reaction than male bodies.
(c) The identification of the female body as being at the root of female mental instability.
(d) The notion that women's bodies are hightly sexual and was predisposed to medical pathology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?

2. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?

3. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?

4. Why are the chronological reminders of techniques and time line of the deployment of sexuality important to the theory laid out by Foucault?

5. Where would techniques of repression of sexuality first appear?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

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

4. What is the pedagogization of children's sex?

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

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

7. What role does discourse play in power?

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

9. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

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