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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are kept and preserved to prevent from endangering others in the cultures Douglas describes?
(a) Social barriers.
(b) Areas of margin.
(c) Sex pollution.
(d) Moral offenses.

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

3. In Lele culture, what is killed to challenge the notion of ambiguity?
(a) Octopus.
(b) Pangolin.
(c) Flying squirrel.
(d) Bird.

4. Which of the following describes Douglas' pre-Copernican classification?
(a) Non-subjective.
(b) Non-polluting.
(c) Non-objective.
(d) Non-pure.

5. Which of the following do the Mae Enga men fear?
(a) Female collaboration.
(b) Internal boundaries.
(c) Fire.
(d) Female sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?

2. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?

3. The model of sexual energy that Douglas describes is a basis of what?

4. Who determines what pollution is and how it enters in the caste society Douglas describes?

5. What does Douglas state determines whether menstrual blood is dangerous?

(see the answer key)

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