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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can adulterers become free from guilt, as described in Nuer society?
(a) By performing a sacrifice.
(b) By praying.
(c) By cleansing themselves of pollution.
(d) By getting a divorce.

2. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?
(a) Fitting within certain parameters.
(b) Stable worlds.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Identifying pure and impure.

3. Which act does Douglas claim led to the recovery of an entire village?
(a) Tooth removal.
(b) Emotional attachment.
(c) Liver removal.
(d) Appendix removal.

4. Why does Douglas think witches represent threat?
(a) They cannot control themselves.
(b) They engage in incest.
(c) They are murderers.
(d) They are pitiful.

5. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?
(a) Urine.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Grass.
(d) Vegetables.

Short Answer Questions

1. For rituals to be effective, what does Douglas believe they require?

2. What do moral offenses truly depend on, according to Douglas?

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

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

5. What, according to Douglas, is used as a separation to avoid disease?

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