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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a success-based belief that Douglas mentions?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Wicca.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Baraka.

2. Douglas states that which group of people regard external forms as empty?
(a) Sumerians.
(b) Christians.
(c) Americans.
(d) Romans.

3. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?
(a) Rationale and logic.
(b) Unity and variety.
(c) Pollution and society.
(d) Alignment and purity.

4. What is the culture used as an example that treats sub-castes as minorities?
(a) Coorgs.
(b) Sumerian.
(c) Hindu.
(d) American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?

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

3. What do ambiguities allow for?

4. Which of the following do cultures not involve, according to the reading?

5. In the Hebrew religion, what could only be touched through sacrifice?

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