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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 7, what type of boundaries does society have?
(a) Introverted and outgoing.
(b) Shrill and peaceful.
(c) Internal and external.
(d) Polluted and purified.

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

4. How does Douglas' society prefer to deal with moral offenses?
(a) Religion.
(b) Rituals.
(c) Money.
(d) Deaths.

5. Which of the following transmits disease and has a toxic influence, according to Douglas?
(a) Food.
(b) Hair.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Flesh.

Short Answer Questions

1. To create order, what does Douglas believe one must acknowledge?

2. Which word does Douglas use to describe the highest castes in South India?

3. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?

4. What does the union between God and people involve in Douglas' view?

5. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?

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