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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Douglas claim that pollution annihilates?
(a) Fame.
(b) Restrictions.
(c) Orderliness.
(d) Desire.

3. In Chapter 6, what is considered to be both part of authority and other social structures?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Purity.
(d) Sorcery.

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

5. Rejecting or affirming dirt has little to do with which of the following described by Douglas?
(a) Crossing boundaries.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Relativisism.
(d) Escapism.

6. What do moral offenses truly depend on, according to Douglas?
(a) The anger felt by elders.
(b) The feelings of the injured party.
(c) The number of children the offender has.
(d) The economic status of the community.

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

8. Which of the following do cultures not involve, according to the reading?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Norms.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Religion.

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

10. What types of nationalities are deemed to represent power and invite discrimination, according to Douglas?
(a) Those with faith.
(b) Those with knowledge and skills.
(c) Those with complete purity.
(d) Those with unexplained advantages.

11. In South India, who can marry?
(a) Elderly men.
(b) Eldest sons.
(c) Eldest daughters.
(d) Youngest sons.

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

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

14. What do primitive cultures and Christianity have in common in Douglas' opinion?
(a) Virginity.
(b) Virility.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Sexuality.

15. What do the Nyakusa associate dirt with?
(a) Madness.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Sex.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word does Douglas use to describe the highest castes in South India?

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

4. What do the Nuer determine their moral code through?

5. Why do men and women avoid sex in Lele culture before important events?

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