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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In some tribes, what are examples of formlessness?
(a) Unborn babies.
(b) Women.
(c) Elderly members above the age of 65.
(d) Children under the age of 5.

2. What does the allegiance established through marriage determine in Purity and Danger?
(a) Sacrifices necesary to reclaim purity.
(b) Political structure.
(c) Purification.
(d) Sexual collaboration.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who determines what pollution is and how it enters in the caste society Douglas describes?
(a) The highest caste.
(b) Literature.
(c) Clergy members.
(d) The lowest caste.

11. What are kept and preserved to prevent from endangering others in the cultures Douglas describes?
(a) Areas of margin.
(b) Moral offenses.
(c) Social barriers.
(d) Sex pollution.

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

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

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

15. If a husband's life is threatened, who is to blame in Nuer beliefs?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His children.
(d) His lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Douglas' society prefer to deal with moral offenses?

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

3. What do the Bemba believe can transfer through fire?

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

5. What is the only thing that can control danger, according to Douglas?

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