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+1. What year was The Island of Dr. Moreau published and who wrote it?
+
+Written by H. G. Wells, published in 1896.
+
+2. What happens to The Lady Vain?
+
+It crashes into a derelict. The crew splits into two boats. One of the
+boats contains our narrator and is recovered and towed to Dr. Moreau's
+Island.
+
+3. Who is M'ling?
+
+M'ling is one of the more successful instances of Dr. Moreau's
+experiments---Montgomery's red-eyed attendant.
+
+4. Define the uncanny.
+
+The uncanny is unsettlingness that suggests the supernatural. The Beast
+Folk are so uncanny (even before Edward learns that) because they are
+weird and abnormal, their animalism suggesting the sort of supernatural
+intervention Moreau undertook.
+
+5. Who was the first person to perform a vivisection in Britain?
+
+Francois Magendie performed the first highly publicized vivisection in
+Britain, making the public aware of it.
+
+6. What kind of experiments does Dr. Moreau perform and how does he
+justify them? Please give direct quotations.
+
+Dr. Moreau is a vivisector who has taken surgical transformations from
+small, individual alterations to entire reworkings of the body.
+Specifically, he attempts to turn animal forms into human forms.
+He justifies it mostly by ignoring the pain as a factor. "So long as
+visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own pains drive
+you...I tell you, you are an animal," Monreau tells Edward, "Pleasure
+and pain---bah!" Monreau wants Edward to believe that pain is an archaic
+measure of cruelty and morality because it's "optional." Moreau believes
+he is pursuing a higher goal of "true research," where he follows
+inquiry wherever the data takes him regardless of such petty concerns,
+in his view.
+
+7. How are the Beast Folk depicted and what characters from The Sign of
+Four or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde do they recall?
+
+The Beast Folk are depicted as misshapen, ugly, and wrong on a physical
+level. Mentally, they are little smarter than an idiot. The latter count
+is mostly irrelevant, but the first is a precise correspondence to Mr.
+Hyde and the reaction he draws out of people.
+
+8. Define degeneration.
+
+Degeneration is the opposite of development, a decline from a higher or
+more complex form. This is seen in the regression of the beast folk.
+
+9. What's the Uneven U?
+
+The Uneven U is paragraph structure. Arguments connect abstract ideas
+(essay motivations) with direct evidence, which is best organized as a
+"U" of abstraction, high-level motivation at the beginning and the end,
+and analysis and direct evidence in the middle.
+
+10. In the nineteenth century, how did British law define "cruelty?" How
+do you think we should define cruelty?
+
+British law originally defined cruelty with "wanton disregard" (i.e.
+with no rational explanation). This was later removed, but still Sir
+John Day said that cruelty is "something which cannot be justified."
+I am uncertain if cruelty should be the line in the sand for if an
+experiment can be carried out, but as I see it, cruelty should be based
+on the victim's experience---regardless of the perpetrator's motive
+unless that reduces the victim's pain in some way. Volunteering is
+probably the most basic level at which pain and suffering is acceptable,
+but this doesn't translate perfectly to animal subjects, which is why it
+should be determined based on suffering of the victim almost
+exclusively.