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

2. Which of the following was NOT something that was seen as being influenced by sex?
(a) The welfare of future generations.
(b) The health and well being of the body.
(c) The soul.
(d) The political influence.

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

4. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?
(a) An element of power capable of serving as a tool for the most varied strategies.
(b) An element of power relations endowed with the greatest instrumentality.
(c) All of the above.
(d) A transfer point for relations of power between people.

5. What does the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?
(a) Knowledge generates discourse, which manifests power.
(b) Discourse is multifaceted form of power.
(c) Discourse joins power and knowledge together, and its tactics are variable and changing.
(d) Every power manifests itself as new discourse.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the cycle of prohibition?

3. What does Foucault say about resistance?

4. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?

5. What reason does Foucault give for the need to analyze power to strengthen his argument?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

6. What does Foucault have to say about resistance? Where can you find it?

7. Explain what is meant by the statement that sexuality changed from a matter of death and sin to a matter of life and illness.

8. How does sexuality vary between classes?

9. What role does discourse play in power?

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

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