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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 uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(b) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.
(c) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.
(d) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.

2. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"
(a) Without control of social institutions the population will slowly rid itself of sexual rules.
(b) A heredity with maladies ended by producing a sexual pervert.
(c) The belief propogated that without medical help, sexual maladies will worsen until they consume the subject.
(d) Repression of sexuality degenerates with each generation.

3. What is the deployment of alliance?
(a) The tendency of strategies to work together under power.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The unification effect of the repression of sexuality.
(d) A system of rules and regulations based in kinship ties and marital bonds.

4. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?
(a) Uphold the rules of alliance.
(b) Undercut sexual regulation.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Liberate from repression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements regarding power would Foucault likely agree with?

2. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?

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

4. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

5. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

6. 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?

7. Relationships between power and knowledge are transformational matrices and highly subject to change. Give an example of a power-knowledge relationship that has changed dramatically.

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

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

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

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