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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?
(a) The purity.
(b) The faith.
(c) The pollution.
(d) The sacred.

2. According to Frazer, what did the primitive people fail to incorporate in religion?
(a) A deity.
(b) Love.
(c) Churches.
(d) Ethics.

3. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?
(a) Purity.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Comparative religion.
(d) Ethics.

4. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?
(a) Being unpure.
(b) Drug indigestion.
(c) Eating something polluted.
(d) Food indigestion.

5. Which of the following relationships is unclear to Douglas?
(a) Religion and magic.
(b) Ritual and purity.
(c) Science and magic.
(d) Pollution and science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas say in Chapter 2 is necessary for recovery?

2. Which of the following does Douglas describe as moving against nature?

3. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?

4. What is medical materialism based on?

5. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?

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