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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Douglas, what rules are humans meant to adhere to?
(a) Holiness.
(b) Morality.
(c) Strength.
(d) Ethics.

2. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?
(a) License.
(b) Cell phone.
(c) Norms.
(d) Etiquette.

3. 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.

4. Which of the following would not be appropriate for an earth animal, according to the classification?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Walking.
(c) Running.
(d) Hopping.

5. How does Douglas' society prefer to deal with moral offenses?
(a) Deaths.
(b) Rituals.
(c) Religion.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of barrier crossing is treated as pollution as described by Douglas?

2. What does Douglas believe has inspired the distinction between primitive and non-primitive cultures?

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

4. How do people with wills and intelligence respond, according to Douglas?

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

(see the answer key)

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