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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?
(a) Leviticus.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Specific order.
(d) Natural order.

2. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?
(a) Holiness.
(b) Faith.
(c) Separation.
(d) Pollution.

3. What are Douglas' rules of pollution concerned with?
(a) Facts.
(b) Morals.
(c) Strategy.
(d) Opinions.

4. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?
(a) Rationale and logic.
(b) Unity and variety.
(c) Alignment and purity.
(d) Pollution and society.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?

3. What do the effects of pollution involve, according to Douglas?

4. Whose life is put at risk when a wife commits adultery in the Nuer society described?

5. What type of behavior does the pollution Douglas describes reflect?

(see the answer key)

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