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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?
(a) Robertson.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Smith.
(d) Frazer.

2. According to Frazer, what did magic lead to?
(a) Inability to distinguish between associations and reality.
(b) The best way to live.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Inability to believe in a religion.

3. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?
(a) Pollution and symbolism.
(b) Pollution and defilement.
(c) Purity and theft.
(d) Disgust and hatred.

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

5. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?
(a) Robertson.
(b) Durkehim.
(c) Smith.
(d) Frazer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do anomalies represent?

3. According to Douglas, who had contempt for primitive society through preconceived judgments?

4. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?

5. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?

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