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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

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

3. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?
(a) It harms children.
(b) It eliminates harmony.
(c) I creates disorder.
(d) It creates danger.

4. What does Douglas describe rituals as requiring?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Sequentiality.

5. Which of these is not a pollution that Douglas distinguishes?
(a) The lines' margin.
(b) Crossing internal boundaries.
(c) Crossing external boundaries.
(d) Refraining from purity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?

2. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?

3. In some tribes, what are examples of formlessness?

4. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?

5. In what society described are elders with powers able to control juniors but not for personal gain?

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