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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 Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
(a) It has unified social strategies into the family unit.
(b) It has brought sexual discourse into the home.
(c) Secure sexuality under law and give alliance control over sexuality.
(d) It has created multiple perversions.

2. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Sex became a secular and state concern.
(b) Confessions started to include sex.
(c) Sexuality became seen as pathology.
(d) Laws started to prosecute aldulterers.

3. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"
(a) A mode of subjugation which has the form of rule.
(b) A group of institutions and mechanisms to ensure the subservience of citizens of a given state.
(c) A general system of domination exerted by one group over another.
(d) A multiplicity of force relations immanent in the sphere in which they operate.

4. Which words would Foucault use to explain power?
(a) Intentional and nonsubjective.
(b) Intentional and linear.
(c) Linear and overt.
(d) Random and nonsubjective.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Explain the concept of juridico-discursive power. Where does Foucault say we perceive it to act?

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

9. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

10. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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