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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 the reading state success-based beliefs represent?
(a) Distribution of wealth.
(b) Distribution of purity and pollution.
(c) Distribution of positive power.
(d) Distribution of status.

2. What does Douglas state embraces harmony, order, and meaning?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Disease.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Sequentiality.

3. Which culture is used as the example to show that dangerous impurities can be feared?
(a) Coorgs.
(b) Maosis.
(c) American.
(d) Sumerian.

4. Which of the following does Douglas believe rituals can alter by restating?
(a) Present.
(b) Past.
(c) Future.
(d) Purity.

5. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?
(a) The purity.
(b) The sacred.
(c) The pollution.
(d) The faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Malinowski study?

2. Which of the following would not be appropriate for an earth animal, according to the classification?

3. If a woman is endangered in child labor, who is condemned in Nuer culture?

4. Which of the following is specifically a result of men-centered religions in Douglas' view?

5. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?

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