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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which group of people have practices to prevent and cure malaria?
(a) Dinka.
(b) Christians.
(c) Hencem.
(d) Sumerian.

3. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?
(a) Order.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Anomalies.
(d) Purity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?

2. What does Douglas state embraces harmony, order, and meaning?

3. What does Douglas believe can only be effective if it attracts faith?

4. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?

5. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?

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