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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?
(a) Smith.
(b) Robertson.
(c) Durkehim.
(d) Frazer.

3. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Purity.
(d) Aid.

4. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?
(a) I creates disorder.
(b) It creates danger.
(c) It harms children.
(d) It eliminates harmony.

5. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?
(a) Boundaries are established.
(b) Ideas are ordered.
(c) Two categories of animals must be eaten with each meal.
(d) Margins are kept according to rituals of separation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does not contribute to social control as described by Douglas?

2. Who determines what pollution is and how it enters in the caste society Douglas describes?

3. What do the effects of pollution involve, according to Douglas?

4. What does Douglas claim miracle and magic are expected to bring?

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

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