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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose life is put at risk when a wife commits adultery in the Nuer society described?
(a) The wife's lover.
(b) The wife's husband.
(c) The wife.
(d) The wife's first son.

3. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?
(a) Religion.
(b) Cosmic pollution.
(c) Social pollution.
(d) Observing taboo.

4. In which type of world view does Douglas believe the world is seen as subjective and personal?
(a) Pure.
(b) Modern.
(c) Polluted.
(d) Primitive.

5. What type of behavior does the pollution Douglas describes reflect?
(a) Good.
(b) Religious.
(c) Righteous.
(d) Wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?

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

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

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

5. How can adulterers become free from guilt, as described in Nuer society?

(see the answer key)

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