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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Religion.
(c) Social processes.
(d) Ethics.

5. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?
(a) Observing taboo.
(b) Cosmic pollution.
(c) Religion.
(d) Social pollution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Malinowski study?

2. Which of these is not a pollution that Douglas distinguishes?

3. What does Douglas claim that pollution annihilates?

4. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?

5. What types of nationalities are deemed to represent power and invite discrimination, according to Douglas?

(see the answer key)

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