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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of nationalities are deemed to represent power and invite discrimination, according to Douglas?
(a) Those with faith.
(b) Those with knowledge and skills.
(c) Those with complete purity.
(d) Those with unexplained advantages.

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

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

4. Which of the following do days signify to Douglas?
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Blessings.
(c) Practices.
(d) Religion.

5. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?
(a) Supernatural.
(b) Tolerant.
(c) Systematic.
(d) Unified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are kept and preserved to prevent from endangering others in the cultures Douglas describes?

2. What does Douglas describe purification allows for avoiding?

3. What did Vann Gennep associate danger with?

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

5. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?

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