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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 Douglas describe purification allows for avoiding?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) Social consequences.
(c) Economic downfall.
(d) Retribution.

2. For Douglas, what does winning require?
(a) Rationale.
(b) Purity.
(c) Separation.
(d) Pollution.

3. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?
(a) Compatible.
(b) Polluted.
(c) Classified.
(d) Orderly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of rules fail to deter authority in the Bemba culture?

2. What do rituals of purification incorporate, as described by Douglas?

3. What do the Nuer determine their moral code through?

4. Douglas believes that primitive cultures experience less of which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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