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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglas believe unsuccessful structures invite?
(a) Danger.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Witches.
(d) Rivalry.

2. What do ambiguities allow for?
(a) Purities.
(b) Different interpretations.
(c) Different emotions.
(d) Pollutions.

3. To create order, what does Douglas believe one must acknowledge?
(a) Disorder.
(b) Composure.
(c) Tidiness.
(d) Faith.

4. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?
(a) Cosmic pollution.
(b) Observing taboo.
(c) Religion.
(d) Social pollution.

5. Which of the following does not interfere with separation in Douglas' beliefs?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Incest.
(c) Fighting in a polluted state.
(d) Eating an earth animal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?

2. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?

3. According to Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?

4. What is medical materialism based on?

5. What do anomalies represent?

(see the answer key)

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