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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?
(a) Classified.
(b) Polluted.
(c) Compatible.
(d) Orderly.

2. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?
(a) Disgust and hatred.
(b) Purity and theft.
(c) Pollution and defilement.
(d) Pollution and symbolism.

3. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?
(a) Faith.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Separation.

4. What is medical materialism based on?
(a) Philosophical beliefs.
(b) Practical health routines.
(c) Sumerian beliefs.
(d) Sanitary conditions.

5. To maintain universal order, what does Douglas believe must occur?
(a) Groups must learn to cooperate.
(b) Individuals must learn to bless each other.
(c) Individuals must maintain proper bathing rituals.
(d) Individuals must adhere to their class.

Short Answer Questions

1. To study purity and pollution, what does Douglas believe one must understand?

2. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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