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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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. What do ambiguities allow for?
(a) Purities.
(b) Different emotions.
(c) Different interpretations.
(d) Pollutions.

5. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?
(a) Smith.
(b) Robertson.
(c) Durkheim.
(d) Douglas.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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