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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. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The revolution was not against the laws (the seat of power) but against those that overstepped the legal framework. Thus power and law were still on the same side.
(c) The revolutionaries created their own set of laws to produce power.
(d) When governmental agencies became too powerful the populace no longer obeyed laws.

2. 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) Cease to conceive of power as law, prohibition, liberty, and sovereignty.
(c) Rid ourselves of a juridical and negative representation of power.
(d) All of the above.

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

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

5. What statement does Foucault make about why power over sexuality remains the law of interdiction?
(a) Secrecy is in the nature of abuse of power.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Conflicting forces repress all other power mechanisms.
(d) Its success if proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

2. When does the alternate history that Foucault tells for sexuality start?

3. Which statement would Foucault agree with?

4. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?

5. If one tries to define the history of sexuality by mechanisms of repression, there are two "ruptures" that Foucault identifies and says warrants further investigation. Which of the following is NOT either a description of one of the ruptures or the time period it took place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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