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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?
(a) The purity of the mother and father.
(b) The sequentiality of birth.
(c) The cosmos.
(d) The water and air present during birth.

2. According to Purity and Danger, which of the following can an impersonal universal power not do?
(a) Reward.
(b) Reveal secrets.
(c) Make moral judgments.
(d) Punish.

3. Which item does Douglas require for success?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Incompatibility.
(c) Wholeheartedness.
(d) Blessings.

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

5. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Blessings.
(c) Incompleteness.
(d) Wholeness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?

2. What does Douglas state determines whether menstrual blood is dangerous?

3. What do rituals of purification incorporate, as described by Douglas?

4. What do boundaries represent to Douglas?

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

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