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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the Maoris, what does menstrual blood represent?
(a) Sin.
(b) Faith.
(c) Death.
(d) Life.

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

3. In Lele culture, what should pregnant women only eat?
(a) Water animals.
(b) Earth animals.
(c) Animals usually banned from consumption.
(d) Sky animals.

4. What do the Lele men compete for?
(a) Sex with multiple women.
(b) Children.
(c) Homes.
(d) Wives.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Douglas believe unsuccessful structures invite?
(a) Danger.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Witches.
(d) Rivalry.

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

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

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

13. In the Hebrew religion, what could only be touched through sacrifice?
(a) Blood.
(b) Pork.
(c) Water.
(d) Beef.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What type of consequences does Douglas state cannot be reversed?

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

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

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