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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?
(a) Individuals.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Families.
(d) Children.

2. According to Purity and Danger, which of the following can an impersonal universal power not do?
(a) Make moral judgments.
(b) Punish.
(c) Reward.
(d) Reveal secrets.

3. According to Douglas, what rules are humans meant to adhere to?
(a) Strength.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Morality.
(d) Ethics.

4. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?
(a) Two categories of animals must be eaten with each meal.
(b) Boundaries are established.
(c) Ideas are ordered.
(d) Margins are kept according to rituals of separation.

5. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?
(a) The water and air present during birth.
(b) The sequentiality of birth.
(c) The cosmos.
(d) The purity of the mother and father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?

2. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?

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

4. What type of barrier crossing is treated as pollution as described by Douglas?

5. Where did the classification of animals come from?

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