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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can be derived from the ritual frame that Douglas describes?
(a) Purity.
(b) Escape.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Power.

2. What do success-based beliefs lack, according to the reading?
(a) Hereditary powers.
(b) Purity.
(c) Structure.
(d) Order.

3. What is considered the first stage of digestion in the caste structure described?
(a) Swallowing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Purchasing food.
(d) Chewing.

4. What does Douglas believe unsuccessful structures invite?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Rivalry.
(c) Danger.
(d) Witches.

5. What ambiguity example is given in Chapter 10?
(a) Flying squirrel.
(b) Octopus.
(c) Jelly fish.
(d) Cat.

6. What does Douglas say happens if sexual roles are directly enforced?
(a) Sex is pollution-free.
(b) Sex is legal in cases of incest and adultery.
(c) Sex is polluted.
(d) Sex is illegal.

7. What do primitive cultures and Christianity have in common in Douglas' opinion?
(a) Virility.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Virginity.
(d) Sexuality.

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

9. Rejecting or affirming dirt has little to do with which of the following described by Douglas?
(a) Crossing boundaries.
(b) Escapism.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Relativisism.

10. What does Douglas describe boundaries as altering?
(a) Shapes.
(b) Personality.
(c) Conflicts.
(d) Religion.

11. What does the allegiance established through marriage determine in Purity and Danger?
(a) Sexual collaboration.
(b) Sacrifices necesary to reclaim purity.
(c) Political structure.
(d) Purification.

12. What are Douglas' rules of pollution concerned with?
(a) Facts.
(b) Opinions.
(c) Morals.
(d) Strategy.

13. What do the Nyakusa associate dirt with?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Madness.
(c) Food.
(d) Sex.

14. What may the Nuer kill in defense for, according to Douglas?
(a) Their food.
(b) Their rights.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their homes.

15. What do external boundaries involve, according to Douglas?
(a) Communcal sacrifice.
(b) Perosnal inclinations.
(c) Purity.
(d) Social order.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what type of boundaries does society have?

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

3. What example is given to describe why a sorcerer would move animals to the human sphere?

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

5. In Lele culture, what is killed to challenge the notion of ambiguity?

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