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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) Unity and variety.
(b) Alignment and purity.
(c) Rationale and logic.
(d) Pollution and society.

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

3. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?
(a) Order.
(b) Purity.
(c) Filth.
(d) Pollution.

4. What does Douglas think a system needs to be successful?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Formal power structure.
(d) Pollution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following are a part of primitive views, according to Douglas?

2. What does Douglas say primitive cultures represent more than modern cultures?

3. What is considered the first stage of digestion in the caste structure described?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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