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

2. What does the rule of immanence state?
(a) There is no disinterested scientific inquiry about sex. Power and knowledge are always connected.
(b) Both power and resistence are generated from withing the same power structure.
(c) The largest force of power will have the largest force of resistance.
(d) Resistance resides within the sphere of power.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?
(a) Growth in scope and complexity.
(b) A growth of methods and procedures.
(c) Perpetual inventiveness of techniques.
(d) All of the above.

4. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?
(a) What strategy they derive from.
(b) What ideology they represent.
(c) What effects of power and knowledge they ensure.
(d) What moral divisions they accompany.

5. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?
(a) Discourse is multifaceted form of power.
(b) Every power manifests itself as new discourse.
(c) Knowledge generates discourse, which manifests power.
(d) Discourse joins power and knowledge together, and its tactics are variable and changing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

2. What does Foucault say about resistance?

3. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?

4. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

5. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

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

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

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

6. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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