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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who determines what pollution is and how it enters in the caste society Douglas describes?
(a) The lowest caste.
(b) Clergy members.
(c) Literature.
(d) The highest caste.

2. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?
(a) Observing taboo.
(b) Social pollution.
(c) Religion.
(d) Cosmic pollution.

3. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?
(a) Wholeness.
(b) Blessings.
(c) Incompleteness.
(d) Pollution.

4. What does Douglas claim that pollution annihilates?
(a) Restrictions.
(b) Desire.
(c) Fame.
(d) Orderliness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?

2. In some tribes, what are examples of formlessness?

3. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?

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

5. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?

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