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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?
(a) Filth.
(b) Purity.
(c) Order.
(d) Pollution.

3. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?
(a) Tolerant.
(b) Supernatural.
(c) Systematic.
(d) Unified.

4. What do the effects of pollution involve, according to Douglas?
(a) Social offense.
(b) Religious offense.
(c) Ritual offense.
(d) Cosmic offense.

5. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Order.
(c) Purity.
(d) Anomalies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?

2. In Chapter 6, what is considered to be both part of authority and other social structures?

3. Which of the following describes Douglas' pre-Copernican classification?

4. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?

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

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