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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 transmits disease and has a toxic influence, according to Douglas?
(a) Hair.
(b) Aluminum.
(c) Food.
(d) Flesh.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?

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

5. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?

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