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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Separation.
(d) Faith.

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

3. In the Hebrew religion, what could only be touched through sacrifice?
(a) Blood.
(b) Water.
(c) Pork.
(d) Beef.

4. In Chapter 7, what type of boundaries does society have?
(a) Polluted and purified.
(b) Shrill and peaceful.
(c) Internal and external.
(d) Introverted and outgoing.

5. What does Genesis provide in relation to animals?
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Pollutants.
(c) Food.
(d) Environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the classification of animals come from?

2. To maintain universal order, what does Douglas believe must occur?

3. Who separated magic from morals and religion?

4. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?

5. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?

(see the answer key)

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