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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Anomaly.
(c) Authority.
(d) Order.

3. Which of the following would not be appropriate for an earth animal, according to the classification?
(a) Walking.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Running.
(d) Hopping.

4. What is medical materialism based on?
(a) Sumerian beliefs.
(b) Practical health routines.
(c) Sanitary conditions.
(d) Philosophical beliefs.

5. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Urine.
(c) Grass.
(d) Dirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?

2. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?

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

4. Which of the following do Douglas' assumptions not allow for?

5. What does Genesis provide in relation to animals?

(see the answer key)

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