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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 say in Chapter 2 is necessary for recovery?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Washings.
(d) Cheer.

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

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

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

5. What does the union between God and people involve in Douglas' view?
(a) Perseverance.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Purity.
(d) Pollution.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?

2. Who separated magic from morals and religion?

3. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?

4. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?

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

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