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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Douglas claims that primitive cultures have been regarded as manipulating which group of people?
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Elders.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas states that pollution only involves situations that have which kind of structures?

2. What can be derived from the ritual frame that Douglas describes?

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

4. What do the Nyakusa associate dirt with?

5. What does Douglas say happens if sexual roles are directly enforced?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do escapism and realism relate to the dirt and primitive cultures that Douglas describes?

2. Describe the Coorgs' caste system.

3. Describe the Nuer beliefs and actions.

4. Why does Douglas say that social consequences cannot be reversed?

5. Why does Douglas state that pollutions are dangerous?

6. How do internal and external boundaries, described by Douglas, relate to the human body?

7. Describe incest in Bushong culture and beliefs.

8. Describe Mae Enga culture and beliefs.

9. Describe the structure of witchcraft that Douglas explains.

10. How does sexual purity relate to women who are low in caste?

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