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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Purity.
(c) Aid.
(d) Dirt.

3. What does Douglas think a system needs to be successful?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Formal power structure.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Pollution.

4. Which of the following is an example of Douglas' social control?
(a) Television.
(b) Cars.
(c) Passport.
(d) Books.

5. What do the Dinka people do to perform a sacrifice in the reading?
(a) Performing a medical procedure.
(b) Cutting victims.
(c) Hanging prisoners.
(d) Killing animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. In modern societies, how does Douglas believe that wealth distributed?

2. What does Douglas say in Chapter 2 is necessary for recovery?

3. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?

4. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?

5. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?

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