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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do boundaries represent to Douglas?
(a) Shape.
(b) Religion.
(c) Danger.
(d) Purity.

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

7. What do the Bemba believe can transfer through fire?
(a) Incest.
(b) Murder.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Premarital sex.

8. In South India, what is part of the entry to the caste?
(a) Purity of women.
(b) Purity of elders.
(c) Purity of children.
(d) Purity of men.

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

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

11. Who/what does Douglas state recognizes death as inevitable as part of cosmic purpose?
(a) Religion.
(b) Americans.
(c) Nyakusa.
(d) Oyo Yoruba.

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

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

14. What do the Lele regard as the cause of early death and source of all evil?
(a) Sorcery.
(b) Rivalry.
(c) Sex.
(d) Sinful living.

15. What is considered the first stage of digestion in the caste structure described?
(a) Purchasing food.
(b) Chewing.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Swallowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. To create order, what does Douglas believe one must acknowledge?

2. Which of these is not a pollution that Douglas distinguishes?

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

4. Which of the following is not a duty the lowest caste would do?

5. In the Hebrew religion, what could only be touched through sacrifice?

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