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MC Practice Questions + Short Answer Example Question - Final Exam

The document contains practice multiple-choice questions and short answer question guidelines for a final exam, covering topics such as body image, social control, colonial trauma, and harm reduction. It provides specific examples and scenarios for students to analyze and apply concepts discussed in class. Additionally, it outlines the structure and expectations for short answer questions, emphasizing the need for applied knowledge and theoretical analysis.

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MC Practice Questions + Short Answer Example Question - Final Exam

The document contains practice multiple-choice questions and short answer question guidelines for a final exam, covering topics such as body image, social control, colonial trauma, and harm reduction. It provides specific examples and scenarios for students to analyze and apply concepts discussed in class. Additionally, it outlines the structure and expectations for short answer questions, emphasizing the need for applied knowledge and theoretical analysis.

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Practice Questions (MC) + Short Answer Question Example: Final Exam

MC Practice Questions:

1. Under a scientific understanding of the ideal body, which of


the following options would be considered an “ideal body?”
a. Someone with a low BMI
b. Someone with the “heroin chic” body type popularized in the 90s
c. Someone with a normal BMI
d. Both A and C

2. Consider the following example: A Sikh man chooses to cover


his head by wearing a turban for religious and cultural
reasons. What does this example best represent?
a. Voluntary appearance
b. Involuntary appearance
c. Camouflaging
d. Both A and B

3. According to Goffman, when we stigmatize other people we


deeply discredit them. What does this mean?
a. To deeply discredit someone means to idealize them
b. To deeply discredit someone means to damage their reputation
in some way
c. To deeply discredit someone means to construct them as a bad
person
d. To deeply discredit someone means to cause someone to hate
themselves

4. Consider the following scenario: River started using heroin


when he was 16 years old. He’s been dependent on it for more
than 10 years. River’s friend, Juan, uses heroin only once or
twice a year when he really wants to relax. Juan is not
dependent on heroin. What harm reduction principle does this
scenario best represent?
a. Non-judgement of substance use and people who use drugs
b. Ceasing (or stopping) substance use is required for recovery
c. Substance use is complex and can be different for different
people
d. Social inequalities impact how people who use drugs deal with
drug related harms

5. Consider the following example: A researcher is studying the


physical appearance of gang members. She is specifically
interested in studying how other people react to gang
members based on their physical appearance (e.g., gang
members’ skin colour, manner of dress, visible tattoos, etc.).
What type of research is the researcher engaging in?
a. Subjective physical appearance research
b. Conformist physical appearance research
c. Objective physical appearance research
d. Qualitative physical appearance research

6. TRUE or FALSE: When it comes to the social control of being


“too fat” the medical field is only interested in reducing
people’s weight for health purposes, not for physical
appearance purposes
a. True
b. False

7. What aspect of colonial trauma do the Sixties Scoop (the


forced removal of Indigenous children/youth from their families
in order to place them with White families in the 1960s) and
the Millennial Scoop (the current overrepresentation of
Indigenous children/youth in Canada’s child-welfare system)
best represent?
a. Colonial trauma is complex
b. Colonial trauma is continuous
c. Colonial trauma is collective
d. Colonial trauma is cumulative

8. Out of the following examples, which example represents the


body project of extending?
a. A woman wears eyeglasses to correct her vision
b. A man engages in body-building
c. A woman gets a tattoo on her back
d. A non-binary person does their makeup

Short Answer Questions: What to Expect

1. For the first short answer question, you will be asked to answer ONE of two options.
These questions are structured very similarly to the short answer Qs on the past two
midterms. As such, you should have a good sense of what to expect with these options
(e.g., the option will ask you to name AND define aspects of a concept we discussed in
class and will ask you to provide examples, strengths, and or limitations of such aspects
of the concept). Because you are all familiar with this style of question by now, I have
not provided an example Q.

2. The second short answer question is mandatory for you to answer. This question is
structured slightly differently than the first set of short answer questions as it is an
applied knowledge question rather than a memory-based question. In particular, I will
give you a topic related to “looking” deviant, substance use and harm reduction, OR
mental illness that you will then be asked to analyze using a theory, idea, or concept from
class. Here is a specific example:

(10 points total) In class, we discussed the concept of “safer supply” as it pertains to harm
reduction and we heard many viewpoints about the topic. Using either an objectivist OR
subjectivist lens, describe how an objectivist or subjectivist researcher might explore the
topic of safer supply (for example, what types of knowledge would an objectivist or
subjectivist be interested in understanding when it comes to safer supply? What kind of
questions might they ask when trying to understand safer supply? What is one limitation
of using solely an objectivist or subjectivist approach when understanding safer supply?)
(6 points). In your answer, be sure to first (1) define/explain what safer supply is (2
points) and (2) use a concrete example in your explanation (2 points).

MC ANSWERS:

1. C
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. B
8. A

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