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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. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"
(a) Because it follows the pyramid of influence in which all parties feel its effects.
(b) Because it has the priviledge of consolidating everything under its unity.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Because it is produced from one moment to the next at every point.

2. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?
(a) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.
(b) Regulation helped spread the sexual discourse and hence sexuality.
(c) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.
(d) Generated perversions.

3. What do the rules of continual variations state?
(a) There are an unlimited number of possible power relationships.
(b) Reistance arises from changing sources even when it remains constant.
(c) Each representation of power is unique and varying from those surrounding it.
(d) Power manifests itself in matrices of transformations, and not static relationships.

4. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?
(a) It intensified the situation, then involved outstide help like doctors which caused discourse to increase.
(b) None of the above.
(c) It channeled many of the previously accepted forms of sexuality into new perversions.
(d) It limited the discussion of sexuality in the family unit and so drove it to outside relations like doctors.

5. Which of the following is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?
(b) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?
(c) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(d) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement would Foucault agree with?

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

3. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?

4. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

5. What does the rule of immanence state?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Foucault use the French revolution to explain the interconnectedness of power and law?

4. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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