Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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 Genesis provide in relation to animals?
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Environment.
(c) Food.
(d) Pollutants.

2. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Blessings.
(c) Wholeness.
(d) Incompleteness.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?

3. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?

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

5. In Douglas' view, what does a lack of blessing create?

(see the answer key)

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