Michel Foucault

1. Michel Foucault is most widely recognized for his work as a…

(1) social theorist (2) philosopher
(3) psychologist (4) humanitarian ()
2. Which of these is NOT a work by Michel Foucault?
(1) History of Madness in the Classical Age
(2) The History of Sexuality
(3) The Order of Things
(4) The Genealogy of Arts ()
3. Which among the following is not the work of Michel Foucault?
(1) Forms of Talk (2) History of Sexuality
(3) Madness and Civilization (4) Discipline and Punish ()
4. Which of the following constitutes an important methodological component in Foucault’s works
?
(1) Structuration Theory (2) Archaeology of Knowledge
(3) Phenomenological Perspective (4) Symbolic Interactionism ()
5. Which theorist developed the theory of power/knowledge?
(1) Michel Foucault (2) Jacques Derrida
(3) Jean-François Leotard (4) Jean Baudrillard ()
6. Which of the following is not a book by Michel Foucault?
(1) The History of Madness (2) The Political Roots of Discourse
(3) Discipline and Punish (4) The Order of Things ()
7. Which thinker is associated with the term "will to power," which influenced Foucault's concept
of power-knowledge?
(1) Friedrich Nietzsche (2) Sigmund Freud
(3) The marquis de Sade (4) Karl Marx ()
8. In “What is an Author”? Foucault argues that the author is
(1) An author function (2) An Individual
(3) Dead (4) Owner of a work ()
9. In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
(1) The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.
(2) The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
(3) The author may not always exist.
(4) All of the above answers are correct. ()
10. Which among the following is not a book written by Michel Foucault?
(1) Madness and Civilisation (2) The Order of Things
(3) Of Grammatology (4) Discipline and Punish ()
11. “What is an Author?”, an essay, is seen as a challenge to Barthes’s depiction of a historical
progression that will liberate the reader from the domination by the author.
What wrote this essay?
(1) Jacques Derrida (2) Michel Foucault
(3) Gilles Deleuze (4) Virginia Woolf ()

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12. What is the term that Foucault introduction in his book The Order of Things which refers to the
orderly ‘unconscious’ structures underlying the production of knowledge in a particular time and
place?
(1) Heterotopia (2) Discursive formation
(3) Archive (4) Episteme ()
13. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to Michel Foucault, the French revolution created grounds for the birth of
‘the clinic’.
Statement II: Foucault mentions that the doctors started caring for the body of the patients the
way priests cared for the soul of the sinners.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
(1) Both statement I and statement IJ are true
(2) Both statement I and statement IJ are false
(3) Statement I is true, but statement II is false
(4) Statement I! is false, but statement II is true ()
14. By which two of the following processes, according to Michel Foucault, does power operate?
(a) By right rather than technique
(b) By normalization rather than law
(c) By control rather than punishment
(d) By repression rather than agreement
Choose the correct option :
(1) (a) and (c) (2) (b) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d) (4) (a) and (d) ()
15. Who among the following explored the shifting and contested power relations, knowledge and
the human body?
(1) Louis Althusser (2) Clifford Geertz
(3) Jacques Lacan (4) Michel Foucault ()
16. According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the following EXCEPT
(1) Medicine (2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology (4) Criminology ()
17. “Panopticism” is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by
(1) Roman Jakobson (2) Jacques Lacan
(3) Michel Foucault (4) Jacques Derrida ()
18. Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from
(1) repeating mistakes (2) totalitarianism
(3) deconstructionism (4) historicism ()
19. Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault’s position?
(1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.
(2) Power operates through discourse.
(3) There is connection between power and knowledge.
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance. ()

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20. “Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times.” Who said this?
(1) Edward Said (2) Michel Foucault
(3) Jacques Derrida (4) Roland Barthes ()

21. A new historical reading, above everything else, is influenced by the philosophy of
(1) Jacques Derrida (2) Jacques Lacan
(3) Michel Foucault (4) Theodore Adorno ()
22. In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin American
writer and his work. Choose the correct answer:
(1) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin America”
(2) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
(3) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(4) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in America” ()
23. Which of the following statements is NOT true of Foucault’s position in History of Sexuality?
(1) Modern sexuality is produced through and as discourse.
(2) The proliferation of modern discourses of sexuality is more striking than their suppression.
(3) To write historically about sexuality involves increasingly direct, immediate knowledge or
understanding of an unchanging sexual essence.
(4) Modern sexuality is intimately entangled with the historically distinctive contexts and structures
now called ‘knowledge’. ()
24. Michel Foucault’s earlier “archaeological” study is found in
(1) Power/Knowledge (2) Social Theory and Transgression
(3) The Birth of the Clinic (4) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics ()
25. One of the key terms in Michel Foucault’s work is discourse.
This is best described as
(1) the power of persuasion in all articulations.
(2) the selective language powerful people use.
(3) conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or
severely constrain certain others.
(4) the ability to suggest transcendental levels of meaning in an utterance. ()
26. Which of the following describes Foucault’s views on knowledge?
(1) Knowledge is not metaphysical or transcendental
(2) Knowledge is not a matter of perspective.
(3) Knowledge is not pure or neutral but is always from a point of view
(4) Knowledge is unconstrained by regimes of power ()
27. Who did the following? “Discursive practice are not purely and simply modes of manufacture of
discourse. They take shape in technical ensembles, in institutions, in behavioral schemes, in
types of transmission and dissemination in pedagogical forms that both impose and maintain
them”
(1) Roland Barthes (2) Michel Foucault
(3) Homi K. Bhabha (4) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ()

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28. Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II :
1. Of Grammatology I. Claude Levi-Strauss
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge II. Jacques Derrida
3. Structural Anthropology III. Northrop Frye
4. Anatomy of Criticism IV. Michel Foucault
I II III IV
(1) 1 3 4 2
(2) 3 1 2 4
(3) 3 1 4 2
(4) 2 1 3 4 ()
29. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)
i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality
iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics-Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(1) 3 1 2 4
(2) 3 1 4 2
(3) 4 2 1 3
(4) 4 3 1 2 ()
30. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :
(Authors) (Works)
i. Vladimir Nabokov 1. Germinal
ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault’s Pendulum
iii. Umberto Eco 3. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(1) 3 1 4 2
(2) 4 3 2 1
(3) 1 2 3 4
(4) 2 4 1 3 ()
31. Match List I with List II
List I List II
[A] Engels and Karl Marx [I] Madness and civilization
[B] Levi-Strauss [II] Being and nothingness
(C] Michel Foucault [III] The German ideology
[D] Jean Paul Sartre [IV] The Elementary Structures of kinship

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 Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II (2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-II
(3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV (4) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV ()
32. Foucault summarizes the current shifts in historical studies as a new 'interrogation' of what?
(1) The spirit of history (2) The document
(3) The statement (4) The fate of objects ()
33. Which of Foucault's books precede the Archeology of Knowledge?
(1) Discipline and Punish (2) The History of Sexuality
(3) Madness of Civilisation (4) The Birth of Clinic ()
34. Which is not one of the forms of historical unity that Foucault rejects?
(1) The Division of Labour (2) Discursive unities
(3) The progress of reason (4) The book ()
35. What is the central historical field addressed by the archeological method?
(1) The history of the sciences (2) The history of grammar
(3) Economic history (4) The history of ideas ()
36. What is the basic element of discourse?
(1) The document (2) The œuvre
(3) The statement (4) The threshold ()
37. Which cannot be considered a statement?
(1) A row of typewriter keys (2) A medical chart
(3) A novel (4) A meaningless sentence ()
38. Which of these concepts are ones coined by Michel Foucault?
(1) Panopticon; Technologies of the Self; Power; and Surveillance?
(2) Panopticon; Impression Management; Power; and Figurations?
(3) Panopticon; Stigma; Technologies of the Self; Identity Crisis?
(4) Panopticon; Surveillance; Habitus and Power? ()
39. Discourse is a concept used to describe...
(1) a path that a coach and athlete must take.
(2) ways of speaking and knowing.
(3) how power is held by one person at any one time.
(4) how power controls the truth about what we know. ()
40. According to Foucault, Power is...
(1) Power is something that can be held, seized and acted with.
(2) Power is a set of shared ideas and beliefs that are normalised.
(3) Power is something that is exercised but not a fixed possession used by an individual or
institution.
(4) Power is always repressive ()
41. According to Foucault, discipline involves:
(1) Bodily actions; surveillance and stigma.
(2) The control of the body; master status and affiliated stigma.
(3) Bodily actions; punishment and technology.
(4) The control of the body; surveillance and punishment. ()
42. Internalisation of the what through the regulation of one’s behavior gives surveillance its
effectiveness as a technique of oppression?
(1) Gaze (2) Eye
(3) Power (4) Love ()