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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Liberate from repression.
(c) Undercut sexual regulation.
(d) Uphold the rules of alliance.

2. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?
(a) None of the above.
(b) It is not affected by repression.
(c) It is created by prohibition.
(d) It finds ways to work through existing channels of power.

3. 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?
(a) The seventeenth century.
(b) The nineteenth century.
(c) The loosening of the mechanism of repression.
(d) The advent of prohibitions.

4. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"
(a) Without control of social institutions the population will slowly rid itself of sexual rules.
(b) The belief propogated that without medical help, sexual maladies will worsen until they consume the subject.
(c) Repression of sexuality degenerates with each generation.
(d) A heredity with maladies ended by producing a sexual pervert.

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) The form of power mechanisms over sexuality is the same format of power found throughout society.
(d) Power over sex dictates a uniformity of sexuality.

6. 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) Gave power to institutionalized strategies.
(c) Constrained sexuality to marital relations.
(d) Generated perversions.

7. What relationship does Foucault give to governmental powers and law?
(a) The law is one of many tools used by governmental powers.
(b) Governments exercise power through law, and the law is the seat of their power.
(c) The law constrains the power of the governments.
(d) The power mechanisms of law and government constantly clash are are kept concealed.

8. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?
(a) Redemption from perceived sin.
(b) Complex power mechanisms.
(c) The throwing off of unilateral power structures.
(d) The battle against repression.

9. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?
(a) All of the above.
(b) They are mobile and transitory.
(c) They are inscribed in power as an irreducible opposite.
(d) They only exist in the strategic field of power relations.

10. When sexuality came to demand the surveillance of the population where did it expand?
(a) Pedagogy.
(b) Demography.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Medicine.

11. Which of the following is the question that Foucault identifies as the one that needs to be addressed?
(a) Given a specific state structure, how and why is it that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex?
(b) In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific form and place, what were the most immediate and local power relations at work?
(c) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?
(d) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?

12. What does Foucault say the universal taboo of incest has caused to happen?
(a) It has brought sexual discourse into the home.
(b) Secure sexuality under law and give alliance control over sexuality.
(c) It has unified social strategies into the family unit.
(d) It has created multiple perversions.

13. 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.

14. According to Foucault, the role of the family unit is NOT:
(a) All of the above.
(b) To be a social structure that restrains sexuality.
(c) To anchor sexuality and give it support.
(d) Allow alliance and sexuality to effect each other.

15. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?
(a) The biological study of sexuality discovered hormones and thus explained perversions medically.
(b) The focus on sexuality went from everlasting punishment after death to a medical problem of illness in life.
(c) Perversions were defined and recognized.
(d) The population openly accepted sexual discourse as necessary for a healthy sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?

2. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?

3. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?

4. What does Foucault say we can see the materialization of the rationality of power?

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

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