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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To create order, what does Douglas believe one must acknowledge?
(a) Composure.
(b) Disorder.
(c) Tidiness.
(d) Faith.

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

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

4. What do the Dinka people try to control more than other cultures, according to Douglas?
(a) Birth.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Death.

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

6. How do the Lele distinguish between pollution and purity?
(a) Washing hands before preparing food.
(b) Classifying animals.
(c) Using fire in sacrifices.
(d) Using certain hands for certain actions.

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

8. What does Douglas state determines whether menstrual blood is dangerous?
(a) Philosophical experience.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Cultural experience.
(d) Pollution.

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

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

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

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

13. Why are moral situations difficult for Douglas to define?
(a) They are contradictory and uncertain.
(b) They are not specific enough.
(c) They are too specific.
(d) They don't allow everybody to be a moral person.

14. What is the only thing that can control danger, according to Douglas?
(a) Orderliness.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Faith.

15. When do Orthodox Brahmins marry off their daughters?
(a) After puberty.
(b) After they begin menstruating.
(c) Before birth.
(d) Before puberty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas think a system needs to be successful?

2. What type of rules fail to deter authority in the Bemba culture?

3. What is the culture used as an example that treats sub-castes as minorities?

4. Which of the following describes the Southern Nayar girls?

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

(see the answer keys)

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