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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where are the Walbiri from?
(a) Australia.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Britain.
(d) America.

5. What does Douglas describe purification allows for avoiding?
(a) Retribution.
(b) God's wrath.
(c) Social consequences.
(d) Economic downfall.

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

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

8. Which of the following is a success-based belief that Douglas mentions?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Wicca.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Baraka.

9. 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.

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

11. Which of the following is not a duty the lowest caste would do?
(a) Cutting hair.
(b) Leading church ceremonies.
(c) Washing clothes.
(d) Sweeping floors.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas states that pollution only involves situations that have which kind of structures?

2. How can adulterers become free from guilt, as described in Nuer society?

3. What types of nationalities are deemed to represent power and invite discrimination, according to Douglas?

4. What are kept and preserved to prevent from endangering others in the cultures Douglas describes?

5. What does Douglas believe maintaining purity stems from in primitive cultures?

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