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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) Cooking.
(b) Reading.
(c) Worship.
(d) Bathing.

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

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

4. What does the union between God and people involve in Douglas' view?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Purity.
(d) Struggle.

5. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?
(a) Sumerians.
(b) Israelites.
(c) Russians.
(d) Americans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is medical materialism based on?

3. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?

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

5. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?

(see the answer key)

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