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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Aid.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Purity.
(d) Patterns.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following transmits disease and has a toxic influence, according to Douglas?

3. Who separated magic from morals and religion?

4. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?

5. According to Douglas, who had contempt for primitive society through preconceived judgments?

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