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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Nuer determine their moral code through?
(a) God's words.
(b) Punishment laws.
(c) Sumerian teachings.
(d) The Old Testament.

2. When is dirt not dangerous, according to Douglas?
(a) With rituals.
(b) With absent identity.
(c) With absent barriers.
(d) With full purity.

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

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

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

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

7. What type of behavior does the pollution Douglas describes reflect?
(a) Righteous.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Religious.
(d) Good.

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

9. What pollution does the Bushong king practice as a part of sacrifice?
(a) Not bathing for two weeks.
(b) Eating meat.
(c) Incest.
(d) Adultery.

10. Which of the following describes the Southern Nayar girls?
(a) Only upper castes can marry.
(b) No fertility.
(c) They get to choose a husband.
(d) No permanent husband.

11. If a woman is endangered in child labor, who is condemned in Nuer culture?
(a) The child.
(b) The woman's seducer.
(c) The woman's mother.
(d) The woman.

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

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

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

15. In Bemba culture, what can cause death?
(a) Fire.
(b) Boundaries.
(c) Sex.
(d) Lying to an elder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Lele men compete for?

2. In South India, what is part of the entry to the caste?

3. What does Douglas claim to be both a part of decay and growth?

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

5. In what society described are elders with powers able to control juniors but not for personal gain?

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