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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglas believe can only be effective if it attracts faith?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Family.
(c) Money.
(d) Blessings.

2. According to Frazer, what did magic lead to?
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) The best way to live.
(c) Inability to believe in a religion.
(d) Inability to distinguish between associations and reality.

3. What do the Dinka people do to perform a sacrifice in the reading?
(a) Cutting victims.
(b) Hanging prisoners.
(c) Killing animals.
(d) Performing a medical procedure.

4. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Authority.
(c) Order.
(d) Anomaly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To study purity and pollution, what does Douglas believe one must understand?

2. What types of nationalities are deemed to represent power and invite discrimination, according to Douglas?

3. When do Orthodox Brahmins marry off their daughters?

4. What does the reading state success-based beliefs represent?

5. What does Douglas say primitive cultures represent more than modern cultures?

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