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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?
(a) Pollution and society.
(b) Rationale and logic.
(c) Alignment and purity.
(d) Unity and variety.

2. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?
(a) Comparative religion.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Purity.
(d) Christianity.

3. In which type of world view does Douglas believe the world is seen as subjective and personal?
(a) Modern.
(b) Pure.
(c) Primitive.
(d) Polluted.

4. Whose life is put at risk when a wife commits adultery in the Nuer society described?
(a) The wife's husband.
(b) The wife's lover.
(c) The wife's first son.
(d) The wife.

5. To create order, what does Douglas believe one must acknowledge?
(a) Tidiness.
(b) Faith.
(c) Composure.
(d) Disorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Douglas' rules of pollution concerned with?

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

3. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?

4. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?

5. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?

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