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

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

3. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the uniformity of the apparatus?
(a) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
(b) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.
(c) Figures of authority regarding sexuality present a uniform practice.
(d) Power over sex is exercised in the same way at all levels.

4. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?
(a) It is poor in resources, sparing in it's methods, and monotonous in tactics.
(b) It is dependent on the biological consequences of disobedience.
(c) It is juridical in nature, centered on nothing more than the statement of law.
(d) It only has the power to say no and to produce limits.

5. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?
(a) By presenting themselves as a way of introducing order in the midst of other powers.
(b) By presenting themselves as agencies of regulation, arbitration and demarcation; formulated in terms of law.
(c) All of the above.
(d) It identified its will with the will of the law, acting through mechanisms of interdiction and sanction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following would Foucault agree what the purpose for which the deployment of sexuality was first established.

2. What do the rules of continual variations state?

3. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?

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

5. Which of the following does NOT represent a transformation the Foucault identifies after the nineteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

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

7. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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

9. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

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

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