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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the effects of pollution involve, according to Douglas?
(a) Ritual offense.
(b) Cosmic offense.
(c) Social offense.
(d) Religious offense.

2. What does the reading state success-based beliefs represent?
(a) Distribution of positive power.
(b) Distribution of status.
(c) Distribution of wealth.
(d) Distribution of purity and pollution.

3. How do people with wills and intelligence respond, according to Douglas?
(a) Logically.
(b) Emotionally.
(c) Motivationally.
(d) Ethically.

4. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?
(a) I creates disorder.
(b) It eliminates harmony.
(c) It creates danger.
(d) It harms children.

5. What do the Bemba believe can transfer through fire?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Premarital sex.
(c) Murder.
(d) Incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?

2. What is medical materialism based on?

3. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?

4. What does Genesis provide in relation to animals?

5. If a husband's life is threatened, who is to blame in Nuer beliefs?

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