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

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

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

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

5. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Reading.
(c) Worship.
(d) Bathing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?

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

4. What does Douglas say in Chapter 2 is necessary for recovery?

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

(see the answer key)

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