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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you best describe the strategy in which sex plays a vital role?
(a) The matrimonial relations.
(b) There is no single one, but many.
(c) One of reproductive function.
(d) A single, all-encompassing strategy.

2. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?
(a) It channeled many of the previously accepted forms of sexuality into new perversions.
(b) None of the above.
(c) It limited the discussion of sexuality in the family unit and so drove it to outside relations like doctors.
(d) It intensified the situation, then involved outstide help like doctors which caused discourse to increase.

3. What does the rule of double conditioning state?
(a) For every power there is a specific resistance.
(b) None of the above.
(c) All local centers enter into an over-all strategy, and no strategy could have effect without support of local centers.
(d) Every power center and resistance have more than influence working upon them.

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

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

6. Which words would Foucault use to explain power?
(a) Intentional and nonsubjective.
(b) Random and nonsubjective.
(c) Linear and overt.
(d) Intentional and linear.

7. What does the hysterization of women's bodies refer to?
(a) The discovery that women's bodies created more emotional reaction than male bodies.
(b) The notion that the women's bodies are extreme manifestations of male counterparts.
(c) The identification of the female body as being at the root of female mental instability.
(d) The notion that women's bodies are hightly sexual and was predisposed to medical pathology.

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

9. When does the alternate history that Foucault tells for sexuality start?
(a) The eighteenth century.
(b) The advent of psychoanalysis.
(c) The development of the feudal system.
(d) The Lateran council of medieval Christianity.

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

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) What over-all domination since the eighteenth century was served by the concern to produce true discourses on sex?
(c) What law presided over both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said about it?
(d) 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?

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

13. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"
(a) A group of institutions and mechanisms to ensure the subservience of citizens of a given state.
(b) A mode of subjugation which has the form of rule.
(c) A multiplicity of force relations immanent in the sphere in which they operate.
(d) A general system of domination exerted by one group over another.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Foucault likely agree with regarding points of resistance?

2. What is the theory of "degenerescence?"

3. What does Foucault say about resistance?

4. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

5. Which of the following does NOT represent a transformation the Foucault identifies after the nineteenth century?

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