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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Lele culture, what is killed to challenge the notion of ambiguity?
(a) Pangolin.
(b) Bird.
(c) Flying squirrel.
(d) Octopus.

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

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

5. In Bemba culture, what can cause death?
(a) Boundaries.
(b) Sex.
(c) Lying to an elder.
(d) Fire.

6. In Chapter 6, what is considered to be both part of authority and other social structures?
(a) Purity.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Sorcery.

7. Douglas states that pollution only involves situations that have which kind of structures?
(a) Clearly defiant.
(b) Clarified.
(c) Clearly defined.
(d) Clearly insulated.

8. What type of rules fail to deter authority in the Bemba culture?
(a) Knowledge pollution.
(b) Murder.
(c) Sex pollution.
(d) Child abuse.

9. Who/what does Douglas state recognizes death as inevitable as part of cosmic purpose?
(a) Nyakusa.
(b) Americans.
(c) Religion.
(d) Oyo Yoruba.

10. Why does Douglas think witches represent threat?
(a) They cannot control themselves.
(b) They are pitiful.
(c) They engage in incest.
(d) They are murderers.

11. What do boundaries represent to Douglas?
(a) Purity.
(b) Danger.
(c) Religion.
(d) Shape.

12. To create order, what does Douglas believe one must acknowledge?
(a) Disorder.
(b) Faith.
(c) Tidiness.
(d) Composure.

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

14. Which of the following do the Mae Enga men fear?
(a) Female collaboration.
(b) Internal boundaries.
(c) Female sexuality.
(d) Fire.

15. What does Douglas believe unsuccessful structures invite?
(a) Rivalry.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Witches.
(d) Danger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture is described as considering death as a challenge to the metaphysical system?

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

3. Where are the Walbiri from?

4. In Chapter 7, what type of boundaries does society have?

5. What does the allegiance established through marriage determine in Purity and Danger?

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