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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglas claim is assured through collaboration?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Purity.
(c) External boundaries.
(d) Internal lines.

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

3. What type of barrier crossing is treated as pollution as described by Douglas?
(a) Childish.
(b) Economic.
(c) Social.
(d) Moral.

4. What does Douglas claim to be both a part of decay and growth?
(a) Formlessness.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Boundaries.
(d) Purity.

5. What do boundaries represent to Douglas?
(a) Shape.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Danger.

6. What does the Oyo Yoruba tribe distinguish between?
(a) Left and right hand.
(b) Hands and feet.
(c) Dirt and cleanliness.
(d) Left and right eye.

7. 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.

8. What type of collaboration does Douglas believe must be maintained to assure social life is preserved?
(a) Marginal lines collaboration.
(b) Polluted collaboration.
(c) Social collaboration.
(d) Sexual collaboration.

9. What does the pangolin represent to some cultures?
(a) Classifying food.
(b) Incest.
(c) Purity.
(d) Fertility.

10. Why does Douglas think witches represent threat?
(a) They are murderers.
(b) They engage in incest.
(c) They are pitiful.
(d) They cannot control themselves.

11. What culture is described as considering death as a challenge to the metaphysical system?
(a) Lele.
(b) Oyo Yoruba.
(c) Nyakusa.
(d) Sumerian.

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

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

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

15. What type of consequences does Douglas state cannot be reversed?
(a) Relationship.
(b) Social.
(c) Economic.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Bemba believe can transfer through fire?

3. What does Douglas describe boundaries as altering?

4. In some tribes, what are examples of formlessness?

5. Rejecting or affirming dirt has little to do with which of the following described by Douglas?

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