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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is medical materialism based on?
(a) Practical health routines.
(b) Sumerian beliefs.
(c) Philosophical beliefs.
(d) Sanitary conditions.

2. According to Frazer, what did magic lead to?
(a) The best way to live.
(b) Inability to believe in a religion.
(c) Inability to distinguish between associations and reality.
(d) Sacrifice.

3. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?
(a) The pollution.
(b) The sacred.
(c) The purity.
(d) The faith.

4. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Comparative religion.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Purity.

5. According to Chapter 1, what do contemporary practices divide?
(a) Dirty and clean.
(b) Knowledgeable and ignorant.
(c) Safe and unsafe.
(d) Pure and Disgusting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?

2. According to Frazer, what did the primitive people fail to incorporate in religion?

3. Which of the following transmits disease and has a toxic influence, according to Douglas?

4. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?

5. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?

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