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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?
(a) Boundaries are established.
(b) Ideas are ordered.
(c) Two categories of animals must be eaten with each meal.
(d) Margins are kept according to rituals of separation.

2. What is the only thing that can control danger, according to Douglas?
(a) Faith.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Orderliness.

3. What does Douglas say primitive cultures represent more than modern cultures?
(a) Fragmented rules.
(b) Rituals and rites.
(c) Pattern rules.
(d) Purity.

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

5. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?
(a) Pollution and symbolism.
(b) Disgust and hatred.
(c) Purity and theft.
(d) Pollution and defilement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas believe has inspired the distinction between primitive and non-primitive cultures?

2. What may the Nuer kill in defense for, according to Douglas?

3. What do moral offenses truly depend on, according to Douglas?

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

5. As excrements pass the boundary of the body, what do they present to the cultures Douglas describes?

(see the answer key)

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