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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 we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?
(a) Acknowledge a technology of sex.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Rid ourselves of a juridical and negative representation of power.
(d) Cease to conceive of power as law, prohibition, liberty, and sovereignty.

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

3. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?
(a) Idleness and obligation to preserve a healthy line of descent.
(b) Inbreeding and lower moral fiber.
(c) Financial difficulty and lack of education.
(d) Knowledge without resource.

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

5. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?
(a) In the medical society.
(b) In the uneducated working class.
(c) In the middle class.
(d) In the economically priviledged and politically dominant classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?

2. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

3. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?

4. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Foucault claim monarchs of the middle ages persuaded the existing power centers to accept and participate in their power?

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

3. How does sexuality vary between classes?

4. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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