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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a duty the lowest caste would do?
(a) Washing clothes.
(b) Leading church ceremonies.
(c) Cutting hair.
(d) Sweeping floors.

3. 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.

4. In Douglas' view, what does a lack of blessing create?
(a) Separation.
(b) Unity.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Anger.

5. What is the only thing that can control danger, according to Douglas?
(a) Orderliness.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do external boundaries involve, according to Douglas?

2. Which of the following did Malinowski study?

3. In the Hebrew religion, what could only be touched through sacrifice?

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

5. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?

(see the answer key)

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