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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. How does Douglas' society prefer to deal with moral offenses?
(a) Deaths.
(b) Money.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Religion.

2. Where are the Walbiri from?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Britain.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do success-based beliefs lack, according to the reading?

2. Which of the following is a success-based belief that Douglas mentions?

3. The model of sexual energy that Douglas describes is a basis of what?

4. What culture is described as considering death as a challenge to the metaphysical system?

5. What does the pangolin represent to some cultures?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Israeli rejection of dirt. How is it destructive and creative at the same time, in Douglas' view?

2. Describe Mae Enga culture and beliefs.

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

4. What are the disadvantages to disorder that Douglas poses?

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

6. Describe the four types of pollutions that Douglas introduces.

7. Describe the treatment of ambiguities as described in Chapter 10.

8. How is food preparation related to pollution?

9. Describe the structure of the Lugbara.

10. Compare and contrast the Nuers and Bedouins on political structure.

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