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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of rules fail to deter authority in the Bemba culture?
(a) Knowledge pollution.
(b) Murder.
(c) Sex pollution.
(d) Child abuse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How can adulterers become free from guilt, as described in Nuer society?
(a) By cleansing themselves of pollution.
(b) By getting a divorce.
(c) By performing a sacrifice.
(d) By praying.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group does Douglas describe as being closest to the Protestants?

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

3. What does Douglas claim that pollution annihilates?

4. What do primitive cultures and Christianity have in common in Douglas' opinion?

5. Which of the following do the Mae Enga men fear?

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