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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does not interfere with separation in Douglas' beliefs?
(a) Eating an earth animal.
(b) Fighting in a polluted state.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Incest.

2. To maintain universal order, what does Douglas believe must occur?
(a) Individuals must learn to bless each other.
(b) Individuals must adhere to their class.
(c) Groups must learn to cooperate.
(d) Individuals must maintain proper bathing rituals.

3. What does Douglas describe purification allows for avoiding?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) Economic downfall.
(c) Retribution.
(d) Social consequences.

4. What do the Lele regard as the cause of early death and source of all evil?
(a) Sex.
(b) Sinful living.
(c) Sorcery.
(d) Rivalry.

5. Douglas states that pollution only involves situations that have which kind of structures?
(a) Clearly insulated.
(b) Clearly defiant.
(c) Clarified.
(d) Clearly defined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be derived from the ritual frame that Douglas describes?

2. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?

3. In Bemba culture, what can cause death?

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

5. In the Hebrew religion, what could only be touched through sacrifice?

(see the answer key)

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