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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the culture used as an example that treats sub-castes as minorities?
(a) Hindu.
(b) Coorgs.
(c) American.
(d) Sumerian.

2. Which culture is used as the example to show that dangerous impurities can be feared?
(a) Sumerian.
(b) Coorgs.
(c) Maosis.
(d) American.

3. What does Douglas think a system needs to be successful?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Formal power structure.

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

5. According to Douglas, what did primitive cultures see as a creative power?
(a) Women.
(b) Water.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Dirt.

6. Whose life is put at risk when a wife commits adultery in the Nuer society described?
(a) The wife's first son.
(b) The wife.
(c) The wife's husband.
(d) The wife's lover.

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

8. The model of sexual energy that Douglas describes is a basis of what?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Collaboration.
(c) Power.
(d) Purity.

9. What does Douglas believe maintaining purity stems from in primitive cultures?
(a) Escapism.
(b) Sin.
(c) Realism.
(d) Sexuality.

10. What is the overall goal of the lowest caste?
(a) To keep their areas clean.
(b) To be an example for their culture.
(c) To aid God in purity.
(d) To help the higher castes be pure.

11. Who/what does Douglas state recognizes death as inevitable as part of cosmic purpose?
(a) Nyakusa.
(b) Oyo Yoruba.
(c) Americans.
(d) Religion.

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

13. Douglas claims that primitive cultures have been regarded as manipulating which group of people?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Elders.
(d) Men.

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

15. How does Douglas' society prefer to deal with moral offenses?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Deaths.
(c) Religion.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are the Walbiri from?

3. Why are moral situations difficult for Douglas to define?

4. What is considered to be destructive of rituals in Chapter 9?

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

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