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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Douglas, what does winning require?
(a) Purity.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Rationale.
(d) Separation.

2. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?
(a) The sequentiality of birth.
(b) The cosmos.
(c) The purity of the mother and father.
(d) The water and air present during birth.

3. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?
(a) Worship.
(b) Reading.
(c) Bathing.
(d) Cooking.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?

2. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?

3. What are kept and preserved to prevent from endangering others in the cultures Douglas describes?

4. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?

5. Which of the following does not interfere with separation in Douglas' beliefs?

(see the answer key)

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