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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which item does Douglas require for success?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Blessings.
(c) Wholeheartedness.
(d) Incompatibility.

3. What is considered the first stage of digestion in the caste structure described?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Swallowing.
(c) Chewing.
(d) Purchasing food.

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

5. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?
(a) Lack of pollution or purity.
(b) Theology.
(c) Jewish concepts.
(d) Classical dramatists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the reading state success-based beliefs represent?

2. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?

3. Which of the following is not described as being a men-centered religion?

4. What does Douglas describe boundaries as altering?

5. Whose life is put at risk when a wife commits adultery in the Nuer society described?

(see the answer key)

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