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

2. What does Foucault NOT say is a derivative basis of power?
(a) Political authority.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Machinery of production.
(d) Families.

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) Inbreeding and lower moral fiber.
(b) Idleness and obligation to preserve a healthy line of descent.
(c) Financial difficulty and lack of education.
(d) Knowledge without resource.

4. What does Foucault say was an issue in the four strategies of power in regards to sexuality?
(a) A struggle against sexuality.
(b) An attempt to mask the more indiscreet, conspicuous and intractable aspects of sexuality.
(c) The production of sexuality.
(d) An attempt to gain control of sexuality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

2. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?

3. What did the socialization of procreative behavior do?

4. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does sexuality vary between classes?

3. 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?

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

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

6. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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

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

9. In what form did sexuality first arise, and what was its intended purpose?

10. 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.

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