Deck 5: Science, Technology, and the Digital World

Question 1

For every baby a woman produces, _______ eggs are "wasted." For every baby a man produces, ________ sperm are wasted.

A) 10,000 ; 1,000,000
B) 10 ; 20,000
C) 200 ; 10¹²(one trillion)
D) 10,000 ; 10¹²(one trillion)

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The female analogy to spermatogenesis is _____________.

A) menstruation
B) childbirth
C) ovulation
D) lactation

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What model does Martin propose as offering a better model for discussing human reproduction that works against more traditional and male-centric, traditional models?

A) Ecological model
B) Cybernetic model
C) Evolutionary model
D) Environmental model

Answer 3

B
Explanation: The article reads, "The cybernetic model-with its feedback loops, flexible adaptation to change, coordination of the parts within a whole, evolution over time, and changing response to the environment-is common in genetics, endocrinology, and ecology and has a growing influence in medicine in general. This model has the potential to shift our imagery from the negative, in which the female reproductive system is castigated both for not producing eggs after birth and for producing (and thus wasting) too many eggs overall, to something more positive."

Question 4

What are hardships the doctors face due to their ethnicity according to the article?

A) lower pay
B) others undermining their knowledge
C) having to do extra work because of their cultural competence
D) All of the above

Question 5

"As the college-educated daughters of marginalized families, I posit that Latina physicians are '_______' who are now in a position to challenge how knowledge is produced in medicine, but they are also repeatedly undermined by various actors in their jobs."

A) professional
B) outsiders within
C) marginalized
D) none of the above

Question 6

The majority of the doctors studied were of what origin?

A) Mexican
B) Central American
C) South American
D) None of the above

Question 7

Which applies to the definition of eugenics?

A) all bodies are abled bodies
B) the only way to achieve a healthy society was by controlling who reproduced
C) women have the right to choose
D) none of the above

Question 8

More importantly, these arguments are ultimately rooted in eugenic thinking, one that grounds the "causation" of our deviation from the norm in our bodies. Arguing that our biology "causes" our differences reflects arguments eugenicists provided to justify their racist and ableist approach to medicine and to their supposed "cures" for our "deviance." It offers a narrative whereby gender non-conformity can be understood as an anatomical pathology or a psychiatric disorder (both rooted in biology), and ultimately reinforces who and what subject positions are _______. It is these biological explanations that continue to pathologize not only gender transgressors, but also people of color and people with disabilities, particularly in practices of sterilization. When we rely on biology and genetics to legitimize trans existence-rather than challenging normative and coercive gender expectations more broadly-we fail to distance ourselves from the dangerous rhetoric of degeneracy.

A) legitimate and "normal"
B) reductive and oppressive
C) intersectional and marginalized
D) none of the above

Question 9

Why is it important to study the history of eugenics according to the aticle?

A) it provides a blueprint for the type of science society should replicate
B) it shows that differences are a biological hazard
C) it provides clearer directions for how we might create more livable futures in the face of oppression.
D) none of the above

Question 10

What is CRISPR?

A) a way to extract hormones
B) a do-it-yourself program for losing weight
C) A gene-targeting and -editing system
D) none of the above

Question 11

What is biohacking in regards to the practice of hormone extraction?

A) biohackers devise and openly distribute clinical protocols-techniques accessible only to professional scientists
B) biohackers devise and openly distribute hospital protocols-techniques accessible to professional scientists
C) biohackers devise and openly distribute at-home protocols-techniques accessible to non-professional scientists
D) none of the above

Question 12

Fill in the blank to the author's call to action: "_______ praxis is the pivot around which method and methodology can relationally bring the lab to the people and the people to the lab, to paraphrase Hammond, and to move towards visions and potential realizations of scientific equity and health justice."

A) Clinical scientific
B) Oppositional scientific
C) Correct scientific
D) Peer-reviewed scientific

Question 13

What led to the identification of office work-related injuries such as repetitive strain injury?

A) Doctors' concerns with the increase in patient visits
B) Middle-class use of technologies previously used by low-paid women workers whose injuries were ignored
C) Organizing on the part of office workers
D) None of the above

Question 14

"Technology is not _______; it is not simply a functional aid. Technology is highly political; it is gendered and intrusive. While seemingly pragmatic and solution driven, technology is capable of reproducing the problems associated with medicine in the past. It may not only be body denying but also threaten the embodied self."

A) oppressive
B) neutral
C) intersectional
D) helpful

Question 15

What is the risk of substituting technology for lost body function?

A) It leads to loss of employment for office workers
B) It doesn't interrogate the mechanistic view of the body
C) It keeps the focus on personal failure or ineptitude
D) None of the above

Question 16

Why does Indian agriculture have a global significance?

A) 75% of the Indian population derives its livelihood from agriculture
B) Every fourth farmer in the world is an Indian
C) Both
D) Neither

Question 17

"Since the World Bank is advising all countries to shift from blank] policies, these countries all compete with each other, and the prices of these luxury commodities collapse. Trade liberalization and economic reform also include devaluation of currencies. Thus, exports earn less, and imports cost more."

A) 'food first' to 'export first'
B) 'export first' to 'food first'
C) 'capitalist' to 'democratic'
D) none of the above

Question 18

How does Shiva argue food totalitarianism can be stopped?

A) More production of exports
B) More mobilization for democratization of the food system
C) More intervention by the World Bank
D) More corporate farming

Question 19

Why is Uber inherently restrictive in who can access and use it as employment and/or transportation?

A) One must own a cell phone
B) One must own a credit card
C) One must have state-approved identification
D) All of the above

Question 20

How are women specifically affected within the sharing economy?

A) They have fewer resources than men do
B) They start from a weaker financial position than men do
C) There is a threat of violence
D) All of the above

Question 21

"While rideshare companies have indeed changed the transportation industry, our findings suggest that they may [reinforce] rather than _______ social hierarchies based on gender, race and class found in traditional models of entrepreneurship and employment generation."

A) challenge, reinforce
B) reinforce, challenge
C) oppress, recognize
D) recognize, oppress

Question 22

Fitz argues that Instagram does not flag the posts of what population nearly as often as they flag the content by queer Black creators?

A) Queer white people
B) Heterosexual white people
C) Both
D) Neither

Question 23

"Let's be real: I have [created] a lot of very suggestive posts, but I always censored and tried to be respectful of IG's community guidelines even when I didn't agree with them. I tried to make sure my _______ (even though who is IG to tell me my _______ are female or male?) didn't show. I never showed any sexual or violent activity. My full bare ass has never been shown, even when Justin Bieber made it cool to do that on IG.
I didn't do more than what a white boy or girl influencer has, but IG automatically [deems] my Black queer body [is] wrong."

A) body
B) vagina
C) sex partners
D) nipples

Question 24

What does Fitz want queer Black creators to do to change the online landscape?

A) Try to change Instagram by working within it
B) Ignore all online spaces and move to physical spaces instead
C) Become engineers who create an anti-racist platform
D) None of the above

Question 25

"Yet her _______ haunted the coverage of Aghdam's shooting after her death. Unlike the male Muslim suicide bomber or shooter, Aghdam was produced as a victim and as an unstable and risky subject whose _______, gender, and refugee-ness made her prone to madness, irrationality, and unpredictability."

A) Muslim-ness
B) Femininity
C) Iranian-ness
D) None of the above

Question 26

What unfounded speculation was made about Aghdam?

A) That she was trans
B) That she was not a vegan
C) That she not Iranian
D) That she was older that she claimed to be

Question 27

How does the author argue that gender affected the portrayal of Aghdam after the shooting?

A) She was not portrayed as a terrorist
B) She was portrayed as someone with mental health issues
C) She was portrayed as a lone actor
D) All of the above

Question 28

Who is Quy?

A) An immerse addict
B) A Galactic citizen
C) A Longevity citizen
D) A tourist

Question 29

Why can't Quy and Tam understand immerser technology on their own?

A) Because of the Galactic safeguards
B) Because Galactic tech is too advanced
C) Because culture can't be reduced to algorithms
D) None of the above

Question 30

"Most ships those days were _______-you'd have thought Longevity's ex-masters would have been unhappy about the station's independence, but now that the war was over Longevity was a tidy source of profit. The ships came; and disgorged a steady stream of tourists-their eyes too round and straight, their jaws too square; their faces an unhealthy shade of pink, like undercooked meat left too long in the sun. They walked with the easy confidence of people with immersers: pausing to admire the suggested highlights for a second or so before moving on to the transport station, where they haggled in schoolbook Rong for a ride to their recommended hotels- a sickeningly familiar ballet Quy had been seeing most of her life, a unison of foreigners descending on the station like a plague of centipedes or leeches."

A) Technological
B) Intersectional
C) Galactic
D) Shiny