From 1ffb9c864b1ca064038ac73e40e831cf4f0a4387 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:00:00 -0400 Subject: read The Island of Dr Moreau, a Vivisection article, and took a quiz --- markley/11_quiz | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 markley/11_quiz (limited to 'markley/11_quiz') diff --git a/markley/11_quiz b/markley/11_quiz new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49451d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/11_quiz @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +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. -- cgit