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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?
(a) Peace.
(b) Separation.
(c) Unity.
(d) Hygiene.

2. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?
(a) Ideas are ordered.
(b) Margins are kept according to rituals of separation.
(c) Two categories of animals must be eaten with each meal.
(d) Boundaries are established.

3. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Natural order.
(d) Specific order.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Frazer, what did magic lead to?

3. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?

4. What, according to Douglas, is used as a separation to avoid disease?

5. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?

(see the answer key)

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