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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do people at the margins of society represent danger to, according to Douglas' view?
(a) Society and themselves.
(b) Their family and themselves.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their tribe.

3. In Lele culture, what should pregnant women only eat?
(a) Water animals.
(b) Animals usually banned from consumption.
(c) Earth animals.
(d) Sky animals.

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

5. Which of these is not a pollution that Douglas distinguishes?
(a) Refraining from purity.
(b) Crossing external boundaries.
(c) The lines' margin.
(d) Crossing internal boundaries.

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

7. Why do men and women avoid sex in Lele culture before important events?
(a) It is illegal.
(b) They do not understand the repercussions.
(c) It is too pure.
(d) It is pollution.

8. What can be changed through the margins Douglas describes?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Conflicts.
(c) Shapes.
(d) Ideas.

9. What is considered to be destructive of rituals in Chapter 9?
(a) Purity.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Quarreling.
(d) Sexuality.

10. What do the Lele men compete for?
(a) Wives.
(b) Children.
(c) Sex with multiple women.
(d) Homes.

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

12. What type of rules fail to deter authority in the Bemba culture?
(a) Knowledge pollution.
(b) Child abuse.
(c) Murder.
(d) Sex pollution.

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

14. In Chapter 6, what is considered to be both part of authority and other social structures?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Purity.
(d) Sorcery.

15. In Chapter 7, what type of boundaries does society have?
(a) Shrill and peaceful.
(b) Introverted and outgoing.
(c) Polluted and purified.
(d) Internal and external.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Nuer determine their moral code through?

2. What do the Dinka people try to control more than other cultures, according to Douglas?

3. Which of the following is not a duty the lowest caste would do?

4. Which of the following do the Mae Enga men fear?

5. What does the pangolin represent to some cultures?

(see the answer keys)

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