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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following do Douglas' assumptions not allow for?
(a) Organization.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Schematizing.

2. Which of the following relationships is unclear to Douglas?
(a) Ritual and purity.
(b) Science and magic.
(c) Religion and magic.
(d) Pollution and science.

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

4. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Filth.
(c) Order.
(d) Purity.

5. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?
(a) Murder.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Ethics training.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?

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

3. What do ambiguities allow for?

4. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?

5. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?

(see the answer key)

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