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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of nationalities are deemed to represent power and invite discrimination, according to Douglas?
(a) Those with complete purity.
(b) Those with knowledge and skills.
(c) Those with unexplained advantages.
(d) Those with faith.

2. What does Douglas say primitive cultures represent more than modern cultures?
(a) Purity.
(b) Pattern rules.
(c) Fragmented rules.
(d) Rituals and rites.

3. Who determines what pollution is and how it enters in the caste society Douglas describes?
(a) Clergy members.
(b) The lowest caste.
(c) Literature.
(d) The highest caste.

4. Which of the following is one of Douglas' marginal states?
(a) Purity.
(b) A fetus.
(c) Children.
(d) Criminal activities.

5. For the Maoris, what does menstrual blood represent?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Faith.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Douglas believe rituals can alter by restating?

3. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?

4. What do external boundaries involve, according to Douglas?

5. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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