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

2. In Chapter 6, what is considered to be both part of authority and other social structures?
(a) Sorcery.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Purity.

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

4. What is considered to be destructive of rituals in Chapter 9?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Quarreling.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Purity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Douglas' rules of pollution concerned with?

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

3. What does Douglas claim that pollution annihilates?

4. What do the Dinka people try to control more than other cultures, according to Douglas?

5. What is the overall goal of the lowest caste?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mae Enga culture and beliefs.

2. Why does Douglas state that pollutions are dangerous?

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

4. Describe incest in Bushong culture and beliefs.

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

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

7. Describe Lele culture and beliefs.

8. Describe Walbiri culture and beliefs.

9. Describe the structure of witchcraft that Douglas explains.

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

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