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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Smith.
(c) Durkheim.
(d) Robertson.

2. What does Douglas say primitive cultures represent more than modern cultures?
(a) Rituals and rites.
(b) Purity.
(c) Pattern rules.
(d) Fragmented rules.

3. 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.

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

5. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?
(a) Old Testmanet.
(b) New Testamant.
(c) Consitution.
(d) Quran.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?

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

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

4. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?

5. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?

(see the answer key)

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