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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do anomalies represent?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Differences.
(c) Interpretations.
(d) Purity.

2. Who/what does Douglas state recognizes death as inevitable as part of cosmic purpose?
(a) Oyo Yoruba.
(b) Nyakusa.
(c) Religion.
(d) Americans.

3. What is considered to be destructive of rituals in Chapter 9?
(a) Purity.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Quarreling.
(d) Adultery.

4. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?
(a) Two categories of animals must be eaten with each meal.
(b) Ideas are ordered.
(c) Margins are kept according to rituals of separation.
(d) Boundaries are established.

5. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Ethics training.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be changed through the margins Douglas describes?

2. What may the Nuer kill in defense for, according to Douglas?

3. What does Douglas claim that pollution annihilates?

4. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?

5. How do people with wills and intelligence respond, according to Douglas?

(see the answer key)

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