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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?
(a) Unity.
(b) Hygiene.
(c) Separation.
(d) Peace.

2. If a husband's life is threatened, who is to blame in Nuer beliefs?
(a) His mother.
(b) His children.
(c) His father.
(d) His lover.

3. Which of the following does not contribute to social control as described by Douglas?
(a) Coercion.
(b) Social awareness.
(c) Predictability.
(d) Monetary incentives.

4. What do the Bemba believe can transfer through fire?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Incest.
(c) Premarital sex.
(d) Murder.

5. According to Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?
(a) Tribes.
(b) Children.
(c) Individuals.
(d) Families.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Douglas, what does winning require?

2. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?

3. What type of consequences does Douglas state cannot be reversed?

4. Which type of myths incorporated undifferentiated conditions that provided a unified view of the world, stated by Douglas?

5. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?

(see the answer key)

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