QUIZ #2 QUESTIONS
1) Which of the following is not something that party members in 1984 would be fearful of?
A) rocket bombs
B) getting caught committing FaceCrime during a Ministry announcement
C) getting caught saying something that goes against the party
D) getting caught owning a notebook
E) getting caught having sex with another party member
F) they are all things that they would be afraid of
2) What is Winston Smith afraid would happen to him if he gets caught doing any illegal
activities?
A) fined
B) deported to the enemy
C) being transferred to another city
D) imprisonment and perhaps vaporisation
E) none of the above
3) Which of the following are not mechanisms that the Party uses to inculcate fear amongst
party members?
A) showing a video of marching enemy troops during the 2-minute hate
B) requiring all party members to have telescreens, which monitors what they say, do and even
their heart rates.
C) keeping the country in perpetual war
D) training kids to spy on everyone
E) the ubiquitous display of posters saying “Big Brother is Watching You”
F) they are all mechanisms used by the Party
4) Based on the “Fear and Control” article, what makes fear an effective mechanism of control?
A) when people are in a state of fear they are better equipped to outrun tigers
B) when people are in a state of fear they are less likely to outrun tigers
C) when people are in a state of fear their rational and higher cognitive capacities are enhanced
D) when people are in a state of fear their rational and higher cognitive capacities are diminished
E) none of the above
5) Based on the “Fear and Control” article, what precipitated the fear psychosis in Egypt?
A) an approaching meteor
B) a swarm of locust
C) the threat of invasion by foreign rebels
D) the spread of the bubonic plague
E) none of the above
6) According to the authors of the “Fear and Control” article, why did the Egyptian rulers
maintain fear amongst the population after the rebels were driven far away from Egypt?
A) they were incompetent and didn’t realize the rebels had been driven away
B) they had received intelligence reports they were about to be attacked by another country
C) pockets of rebels had been found in some cities
D) they realized that a fearful population is easier to control than a fearless one
E) none of the above
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7) Based on the “Fear and Control” article, what are false flag operations?
A) a game that kids play at camps
B) the name of international naval competitions
C) a type of maneuver carried out by military units during war operations
D) covert terrorist operations that are carried out to suggest other entities are responsible for them
E) a type of maneuver players can use in the Call of Duty video game
8) Drawing from the “Fear and Control” article, how is repetition used as a mechanism of
control?
A) repeating falsehoods enhances the population’s rational and cognitive abilities
B) repeating falsehoods enhances the population’s ability to flee tigers
C) repeating falsehoods helps to solidify them
D) repetition helps to perpetuate fear in the public consciousness
E) all of the above
F) only “c” and “d”
9) Drawing on the “Fear and Control” article, what are antidotes to the power of propaganda
and fear mongering?
A) education
B) deference to authority
C) skepticism
D) realizing that those who have lived through the rise of oppressive governments have seldom
realized the perilous situation they were in until it was too late
E) all of the above
F) “a”, “c” and “d”
10) What is the main issue that Laura Nader is trying to illuminate in her article?
A) how 1984 demonstrated mechanisms of control
B) the benefits of the mother-daughter relationship in Chinese society
C) the superiority of Western society
D) how “the other” is used to control women in Western and Middle Eastern societies
E) all of the above
F) only “a” and “c”
11) Which of the following are theoretical concepts that Laura Nader uses in her article
A) hegemony
B) positional superiority
C) the panopticon
D) restricted discourse
E) all of the above
F) only “a”, “b” and “d”
12) Drawing on Nader’s article, which of the following are associated with hegemony?
A) dominant systems of thought reflect the interests of certain classes and/or groups who have
managed to universalize their own beliefs and values
B) the control it promotes is achieved by force
C) the control it promotes is imposed by the state
D) the dominant beliefs and dogmas are achieved through consent
E) all of the above
F) only “a” and “d”
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13) Drawing on Laura Nader’s article, which of the following have been used to control women?
A) to legitimate the control of women, authorities in that country point to the problems women
experience in other societies
B) the idea that women in their own society enjoy a higher form of progress
C) the idea that progress occurs incrementally
D) rupturing the mother-daughter relationship
E) all of the above
F) only “b” and “c”
14) What is the Orientalist grid?
A) it is a form of woodworking found in Japan
B) it is a form of hair braids found in the Middle East
C) it is a Western-based system of images and ideas about the Middle East that serves to control
and constrain what Westerners can know about the Middle East
D) It is a Japanese system of knowledge about the West
15) What was the main focus of Vallée’s chapter?
A) analyzing how pesticide use becomes normalized in Europe
B) analyzing how farmers use pesticides to control red ants
C) analyzing how the New Zealand government hid information about the pesticide they used in
the PAM spraying operation over West Auckland
D) analyzing how the New Zealand government used fear to manipulate the Auckland public to
support the aerial pesticide spraying operation over West Auckland
E) none of the above
16) Drawing on Vallée’s chapter, what does the “naturework” concept refer to?
A) the agricultural work that farmers pursue
B) the work that Green Peace and other environmental groups carry out to clean beaches
C) the physical labor that anyone does to increase biodiversity levels in nature
D) the ideological work of ascribing social meanings to nature
E) none of the above
17) What was the chapter’s main argument?
A) the government failed to convince people the Painted Apple Moth was a threat
B) the government manipulated people into fearing the use of pesticides
C) the government sought to galvanise public support for pesticide spraying by framing the
Painted Apple Moth as a triple biosecurity threat
D) the government concealed the concerns associated with the pesticide
E) none of the above
18) How did the government frame the Painted Apple Moth as an economic threat?
A) the government predicted the PAM incursion would cost the country $16–$116 million over
the subsequent 20 years.
B) a month before the pesticide spraying operation the government released press releases to
remind the public of the economic impact PAM might have
C) the government revealed how much it would cost to spray the pesticide over West Auckland
D) the government informed the public of the healthcare costs that would be associated with
spraying the pesticide
E) all of the above
F) only “a” and “b”
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19) Drawing on Vallée’s article, which of the following are ideological factors that mediated the
effectiveness of the government’s framing activities?
A) New Zealand’s history of struggling with invasive species
B) the environment’s importance to New Zealand’s national identity
C) New Zealand’s love of butterflies
D) the education system’s failure to provide ecological literacy to all its students
E) all of the above
F) only “a”, “b” and “d”
