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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 the allegiance established through marriage determine in Purity and Danger?
(a) Sexual collaboration.
(b) Political structure.
(c) Sacrifices necesary to reclaim purity.
(d) Purification.

2. What can be changed through the margins Douglas describes?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Shapes.
(c) Conflicts.
(d) Pollution.

3. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?
(a) Unified.
(b) Supernatural.
(c) Systematic.
(d) Tolerant.

4. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?
(a) Smith.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Frazer.
(d) Robertson.

5. What do anomalies represent?
(a) Purity.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Interpretations.
(d) Differences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas think a system needs to be successful?

2. Douglas claims that primitive cultures have been regarded as manipulating which group of people?

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

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

5. Where did the classification of animals come from?

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