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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do external boundaries involve, according to Douglas?
(a) Purity.
(b) Communcal sacrifice.
(c) Perosnal inclinations.
(d) Social order.

2. As excrements pass the boundary of the body, what do they present to the cultures Douglas describes?
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Danger.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Purity.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Douglas say happens if sexual roles are directly enforced?
(a) Sex is legal in cases of incest and adultery.
(b) Sex is pollution-free.
(c) Sex is illegal.
(d) Sex is polluted.

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

10. Which of the following is not a duty the lowest caste would do?
(a) Sweeping floors.
(b) Leading church ceremonies.
(c) Cutting hair.
(d) Washing clothes.

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

12. How do the Lele distinguish between pollution and purity?
(a) Using certain hands for certain actions.
(b) Using fire in sacrifices.
(c) Washing hands before preparing food.
(d) Classifying animals.

13. Which of the following do cultures not involve, according to the reading?
(a) Norms.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Religion.
(d) Rituals.

14. In what society described are elders with powers able to control juniors but not for personal gain?
(a) Witchcraft covens.
(b) Maoris.
(c) Lugbara.
(d) Central Africa.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What type of consequences does Douglas state cannot be reversed?

4. What do the Nuer determine their moral code through?

5. Which word does Douglas use to describe the highest castes in South India?

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