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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?
(a) Bathing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Reading.
(d) Worship.

2. What do rituals of purification incorporate, as described by Douglas?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Murder.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Annulment.

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

4. Which of the following does Douglas describe as moving against nature?
(a) Flying.
(b) Running.
(c) Hopping.
(d) Crawling.

5. According to Frazer, what did the primitive people fail to incorporate in religion?
(a) A deity.
(b) Churches.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Genesis provide in relation to animals?

2. What does Douglas believe unsuccessful structures invite?

3. According to the reading's example, what act can be purified through sacrifice?

4. What are Douglas' rules of pollution concerned with?

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

(see the answer key)

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