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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?
(a) Specific order.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Natural order.
(d) Leviticus.

2. What do rituals of purification incorporate, as described by Douglas?
(a) Annulment.
(b) Murder.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Knowledge.

3. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?
(a) Norms.
(b) Etiquette.
(c) License.
(d) Cell phone.

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

5. The model of sexual energy that Douglas describes is a basis of what?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Collaboration.
(c) Power.
(d) Purity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Douglas, what did primitive cultures see as a creative power?

2. According to Chapter 1, what do contemporary practices divide?

3. Which of the following did Malinowski study?

4. Which of the following are a part of primitive views, according to Douglas?

5. What do the Lele regard as the cause of early death and source of all evil?

(see the answer key)

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