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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. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It identified its will with the will of the law, acting through mechanisms of interdiction and sanction.
(c) By presenting themselves as a way of introducing order in the midst of other powers.
(d) By presenting themselves as agencies of regulation, arbitration and demarcation; formulated in terms of law.

2. What new technology of sex emerged at the end of the eighteenth century?
(a) Sex became a secular and state concern.
(b) Confessions started to include sex.
(c) Laws started to prosecute aldulterers.
(d) Sexuality became seen as pathology.

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

4. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?
(a) Knowledge without resource.
(b) Financial difficulty and lack of education.
(c) Idleness and obligation to preserve a healthy line of descent.
(d) Inbreeding and lower moral fiber.

5. Where would techniques of repression of sexuality first appear?
(a) In the labor class.
(b) Uniformally across society.
(c) In the educated middle class.
(d) In the religious of the upper class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Charcot?

2. What do the rules of continual variations state?

3. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"

4. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?

5. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

4. Per Foucault, what are the principle traits of juridico-discursive power structures?

5. How does sexuality vary between classes?

6. What are the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

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

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

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

10. How does Foucault claim monarchs of the middle ages persuaded the existing power centers to accept and participate in their power?

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