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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 1, what do contemporary practices divide?
(a) Pure and Disgusting.
(b) Dirty and clean.
(c) Safe and unsafe.
(d) Knowledgeable and ignorant.

2. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Purity.
(c) Order.
(d) Anomalies.

3. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?
(a) Identifying pure and impure.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Stable worlds.
(d) Fitting within certain parameters.

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

5. Who separated magic from morals and religion?
(a) Smith and Frazer.
(b) Robertson and Durkheim.
(c) Durkheim.
(d) Douglas and Frazer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?

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

5. According to Frazer, what did the primitive people fail to incorporate in religion?

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