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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?
(a) Grass.
(b) Urine.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Vegetables.

3. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?
(a) Classical dramatists.
(b) Jewish concepts.
(c) Theology.
(d) Lack of pollution or purity.

4. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?
(a) Religion.
(b) Social processes.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Ethics.

5. Which of the following are a part of primitive views, according to Douglas?
(a) Solely mechanical symbols.
(b) Solely pollution.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Symbols nobody can decipher now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do anomalies represent?

2. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?

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

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

5. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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