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1. Select the best description of the MKULTRA Program. Group of…
1. Select the best description of the MKULTRA Program.
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“MKULTRA” is the name of a conspiracy theory in A Scanner Darkly, where Barris believes that the CIA is doing mind control experiments with electricity.
“MKULTRA” is the name of a real CIA program that investigated the possibility of mind control using LSD, ECT and other alarming techniques.
“MKULTRA” is the code name for the Substance D program.
“MKULTRA” is the name of a false conspiracy theory which says that the CIA learned mind control techniques from Nazi scientists.
2. Select the correct description of the way that Bob Arctor and Fred relate to one another in A Scanner Darkly.
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Fred is the cop who is preparing to bust the dope dealer Bob.
Bob is the undercover identity for the narcotics officer Fred.
Bob is a shape-shifting lizard person from another dimension; Fred is a human police officer.
Bob and Fred are both competing to attract the attention of Donna.
3. According to the interpretation I was developing, what does the episode of the seven speed bike show us about paranoia and conspiracy theories?
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Paranoia arises chiefly among moderately educated people who share interests.
We don’t want paranoids for our bike mechanics.
Men are more prone than women to paranoid theories about theft.
Paranoia arises easily in situations where we find a cognitive problem (like not grasping basic mechanical relationships) and a prejudice (like Barris’ implicit racism).
Paranoid people often struggle to count properly, especially if they are taking hard drugs.
4. Mark Fenster theorizes paranoia by seeing it as an expression of ______________ and ______________.
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Form and Content
Class and Gender
Memory and Amnesia
Analogue and Digital
Production and Desire
5. Mark Fenster thinks that conspiracy theories address the problem of motives by ______________________
(select the best way of finishing this sentence).
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…resorting to gender stereotypes.
…delving deeply into the biographies of the relevant persons.
…either leaving motives unexplained or pointing to some general wish to do evil.
…performing complex psychological analyses of the main conspirators.
6. What is epistemophilia?
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A disorder in which people are unable to experience pleasure unless they are at the same time learning about a new conspiracy theory.
A kinky appetite for philosophy books.
A circular drive to endlessly reinterpret details from past in light of a conspiracy theory that throws light on the present.
The drive toward truth, such as we find in scholars and scientists.
7. According to Mark Fenster, what are the elements of the conspiracy “rush.”
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The conspiracy theorist is always in a rush, that is in a big hurry, to figure everything out before it is too late. This makes him or her careless and clumsy.
Conspiracy theorists experience a kind of satisfaction in uniting several details in a single theory (as several instruments are united in a harmony); they also feel exceptional and privileged to know what so few others know.
Conspiracy theorists have a peculiar impression that they are “falling through time,” which produces both euphoria and panic.
The conspiracy theorist’s brain has developed a special ability to chemically transform serotonin into dopamine; while the rest of us are sleeping, conspiracy theories are up all night, high on their own brain chemistry.
8. Choose the best summary of what happens in the title moment of the novel.
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Bob realizes that a left hand is a mirror image of a right hand.
Bob realizes that both Fred and Donna are federal narcs.
Bob echoes the language of Paul in Corinthians as he wonders how much the scanners can see into the mystery of his own self.
Bob realizes that he is really Fred.
9. A Scanner Darkly presents an enormous number of conspiracy theories. In Chapters 11 and 12, we see a fundamental change in Fred/Bob’s theorizing. What changes?
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Fred/Bob turns the theorizing inward, wondering with acute and paranoid curiosity who and what he really is.
It turns out that Luckman, as his name suggests, has the best luck in framing true conspiracy theories. After this becomes clear to Fred, he accepts Luckman’s ideas.
Fred focuses his reflections and conspiracy theories exclusively on Donna; meanwhile Donna, ironically, focuses her theories on purely on Bob.
We lose track of all Fred’s theories except those about Jim Barris.
10. According to Mark Fenster, what is the best way of describing the way conspiracy theories usually relate to the future?
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Conspiracy theories tend to make apocalyptic predictions that don’t come true.
Conspiracy theories typically offer our best source of accurate forecasts about the future.
Conspiracy theories don’t address future events.
Conspiracy theories use history as a source for predicting the future because “although history doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes.”
