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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, according to Douglas, is used as a separation to avoid disease?
(a) Psychology.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) Soap.
(d) Washings.

3. In Douglas' view, what does a lack of blessing create?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Separation.
(c) Anger.
(d) Unity.

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

5. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?
(a) The sacred.
(b) The purity.
(c) The faith.
(d) The pollution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?

2. According to Douglas, rituals help to focus through what?

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

4. According to Malinowski, where do rituals derive from?

5. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?

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