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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 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) Its success if proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
(d) Conflicting forces repress all other power mechanisms.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the negative relation of power and sexuality?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Sexuality is repressed by power.
(c) Power and sexuality are mutually exclusive.
(d) The effects of power take the form of limit and lack.

3. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It affirms that a thing is not permitted.
(c) It is an injunction of nonexistance, nonmanifestation, and silence.
(d) It prevents certain things from being said and denies their existence.

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?
(a) There is a discourse of power and one running counter to it.
(b) They are tactical elements or blocks operating in force relations.
(c) There can exist different and even contradictory discourses within the same strategy.
(d) None of the above.

5. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?
(a) An element of power relations endowed with the greatest instrumentality.
(b) A transfer point for relations of power between people.
(c) All of the above.
(d) An element of power capable of serving as a tool for the most varied strategies.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say about the mechanics of power over sexuality?

4. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the socialization of procreative behavior?

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What is the relationship between the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality in the family unit? How does it interact?

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