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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?
(a) Purity and theft.
(b) Pollution and defilement.
(c) Pollution and symbolism.
(d) Disgust and hatred.

2. What does Douglas state embraces harmony, order, and meaning?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Disease.
(c) Sequentiality.
(d) Rituals.

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

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

5. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?
(a) Eating something polluted.
(b) Being unpure.
(c) Drug indigestion.
(d) Food indigestion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?

2. As excrements pass the boundary of the body, what do they present to the cultures Douglas describes?

3. Where did the classification of animals come from?

4. What type of behavior does the pollution Douglas describes reflect?

5. What may the Nuer kill in defense for, according to Douglas?

(see the answer key)

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