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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Douglas, what does winning require?
(a) Separation.
(b) Purity.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Rationale.

2. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?
(a) Bathing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Reading.
(d) Worship.

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

4. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?
(a) Sumerians.
(b) Americans.
(c) Russians.
(d) Israelites.

5. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Specific order.
(d) Natural order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas believes that primitive cultures experience less of which of the following?

2. Which of the following do Douglas' assumptions not allow for?

3. In which type of world view does Douglas believe the world is seen as subjective and personal?

4. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?

5. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?

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