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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the Nuer determine their moral code through?
(a) God's words.
(b) Sumerian teachings.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) Punishment laws.

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

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

5. If a woman is endangered in child labor, who is condemned in Nuer culture?
(a) The woman's seducer.
(b) The woman's mother.
(c) The woman.
(d) The child.

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

7. What is the overall goal of the lowest caste?
(a) To aid God in purity.
(b) To keep their areas clean.
(c) To be an example for their culture.
(d) To help the higher castes be pure.

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

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

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

11. Which word does Douglas use to describe the highest castes in South India?
(a) Polluted.
(b) Sexually ambiguous.
(c) Purest.
(d) Hard-working.

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

13. Who do people at the margins of society represent danger to, according to Douglas' view?
(a) Society and themselves.
(b) Their family and themselves.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their tribe.

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

15. Which of the following do the Mae Enga men fear?
(a) Fire.
(b) Internal boundaries.
(c) Female sexuality.
(d) Female collaboration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Douglas think witches represent threat?

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

4. What do the Nyakusa associate dirt with?

5. For the Maoris, what does menstrual blood represent?

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