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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who determines what pollution is and how it enters in the caste society Douglas describes?
(a) The highest caste.
(b) Literature.
(c) The lowest caste.
(d) Clergy members.

2. Where are the Walbiri from?
(a) Britain.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Egypt.

3. When do Orthodox Brahmins marry off their daughters?
(a) After they begin menstruating.
(b) After puberty.
(c) Before puberty.
(d) Before birth.

4. What pollution does the Bushong king practice as a part of sacrifice?
(a) Eating meat.
(b) Not bathing for two weeks.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Incest.

5. What do success-based beliefs lack, according to the reading?
(a) Hereditary powers.
(b) Structure.
(c) Order.
(d) Purity.

6. Which of the following is one of Douglas' marginal states?
(a) Criminal activities.
(b) Children.
(c) A fetus.
(d) Purity.

7. What culture is described as considering death as a challenge to the metaphysical system?
(a) Nyakusa.
(b) Oyo Yoruba.
(c) Sumerian.
(d) Lele.

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

9. Douglas claims that primitive cultures have been regarded as manipulating which group of people?
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Elders.

10. What does Douglas claim that pollution annihilates?
(a) Desire.
(b) Restrictions.
(c) Orderliness.
(d) Fame.

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

12. What did Vann Gennep associate danger with?
(a) Menstrual blood.
(b) Faith.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Transition.

13. What are Douglas' rules of pollution concerned with?
(a) Strategy.
(b) Facts.
(c) Morals.
(d) Opinions.

14. What can be derived from the ritual frame that Douglas describes?
(a) Power.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Purity.
(d) Escape.

15. What does Douglas state determines whether menstrual blood is dangerous?
(a) Philosophical experience.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Cultural experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is not a pollution that Douglas distinguishes?

2. In Lele culture, what is killed to challenge the notion of ambiguity?

3. How can adulterers become free from guilt, as described in Nuer society?

4. Rejecting or affirming dirt has little to do with which of the following described by Douglas?

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

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