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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To create order, what does Douglas believe one must acknowledge?
(a) Disorder.
(b) Faith.
(c) Tidiness.
(d) Composure.

2. Which group does Douglas describe as being closest to the Protestants?
(a) Lele.
(b) Orthodox Brahmins.
(c) Walbiri.
(d) Yurok.

3. When is dirt not dangerous, according to Douglas?
(a) With absent barriers.
(b) With rituals.
(c) With absent identity.
(d) With full purity.

4. What do ambiguities allow for?
(a) Different emotions.
(b) Different interpretations.
(c) Purities.
(d) Pollutions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?

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

3. Douglas states that pollution only involves situations that have which kind of structures?

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

5. Where did the classification of animals come from?

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