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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of consequences does Douglas state cannot be reversed?
(a) Relationship.
(b) Religious.
(c) Social.
(d) Economic.

2. What does the reading state success-based beliefs represent?
(a) Distribution of wealth.
(b) Distribution of status.
(c) Distribution of purity and pollution.
(d) Distribution of positive power.

3. Which of the following does Douglas describe as moving against nature?
(a) Running.
(b) Hopping.
(c) Crawling.
(d) Flying.

4. What does Douglas describe purification allows for avoiding?
(a) Retribution.
(b) God's wrath.
(c) Economic downfall.
(d) Social consequences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do people at the margins of society represent danger to, according to Douglas' view?

2. Which of the following did Malinowski study?

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

4. What do ambiguities allow for?

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

(see the answer key)

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