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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?

2. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?

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

4. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

5. Attempt at regulation, or the deployment of alliance, of sexuality had what important effect?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

3. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

5. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

6. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

7. Explain the concept of juridico-discursive power. Where does Foucault say we perceive it to act?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the beginning of the book, Foucault asserts that he will explain how the repressive hypothesis is in fact a constituent component of repression itself. Explain what he means.

Part 1: What is the repressive hypothesis?

Part 2: What is the social construct that repressive hypothesis is a part of? How is it a part of it?

Part 3: How does the repressive hypothesis fit in and function with sexuality today?

Essay Topic 2

Foucault presents us with three questions in part one. Discuss each of those three questions, and elaborate on what Foucault's theories are about each question.

Part 1: Is the repression of sexuality a historical fact or a modern creation imposed retroactively on the past?

Part 2: Does the repression of sexuality lead to concentration of power?

Part 3: Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality in reality simply a constituent component of the repression itself?

Essay Topic 3

Foucault brings up two examples of the "incitement to discourse."

Part 1: Explain "My Secret Life" and the case of the peasant Jouy. Why are each of these useful to Foucault's argument of the incitement to discourse?

Part 2: Consider the evolution of sexual discourse and how it relates to "My Secret Life" and the case of Jouy. In which case is the discourse more rudimentary, and in which is it, as sexual discourse, more "evolved?" Why?

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