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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. Which of the following would Foucault agree what the purpose for which the deployment of sexuality was first established.
(a) The body, vigor, longevity and descent of the upper class.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The self affirmation of the affected class.
(d) The underscoring of the high value and price of the body, sensations, and pleasure.

2. Which statement would Foucault agree with?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.
(c) Power relationships depend on a multiplicity of points of resistance.
(d) Where there is power, there is resistance.

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

4. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It is a form of power that is solely repressive and from the top down
(c) It is the power mechanism behind the repressive hypothesis and the belief that prohibition creates desire.
(d) It is still at work in recent analysis concerning the relationships between power and sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

2. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"

3. Why are the chronological reminders of techniques and time line of the deployment of sexuality important to the theory laid out by Foucault?

4. Which of the following statements regarding power would Foucault likely agree with?

5. Which of the rules regarding power and resistance is represented by the following example? In the nineteenth century the sex of a child was discussed between parents and educators or doctors. However, through modifications and shifts now the sexuality of a child is discussed between the child and a doctor with the sexuality of the parents called into question.

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

3. What is the socialization of procreative behavior?

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

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

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

7. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

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 are the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

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