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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 behavior does the pollution Douglas describes reflect?
(a) Good.
(b) Religious.
(c) Righteous.
(d) Wrong.

2. If a husband's life is threatened, who is to blame in Nuer beliefs?
(a) His lover.
(b) His children.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

3. Which of the following is an example of Douglas' social control?
(a) Television.
(b) Passport.
(c) Books.
(d) Cars.

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

5. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?
(a) The cosmos.
(b) The purity of the mother and father.
(c) The sequentiality of birth.
(d) The water and air present during birth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is one of Douglas' marginal states?

3. For Douglas, what does winning require?

4. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?

5. Which of the following do cultures not involve, according to the reading?

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