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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which act does Douglas claim led to the recovery of an entire village?
(a) Emotional attachment.
(b) Tooth removal.
(c) Appendix removal.
(d) Liver removal.

3. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?
(a) Incestual.
(b) Ritualistic.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Neurotic.

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

5. In Douglas' view, what does a lack of blessing create?
(a) Unity.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Separation.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas believe has inspired the distinction between primitive and non-primitive cultures?

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

3. Which of the following relationships is unclear to Douglas?

4. For Douglas, what does winning require?

5. In modern societies, how does Douglas believe that wealth distributed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the rationale for the classification of animals.

2. What were Durkheim's beliefs?

3. What is involved in the categorization that Douglas describes?

4. What were Frazer's beliefs?

5. How does the Old Testament relate to purity, in Douglas' opinion?

6. Describe the role of compatibility for the Israelites.

7. How does Douglas describe the ways in which purity can be achieved?

8. How does Douglas describe fortune as it is related to cosmic alliances in different cultures?

9. How does Douglas believe that one can one maintain holiness?

10. Describe medical materialism as it is described in Purity and Danger.

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