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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Douglas state embraces harmony, order, and meaning?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Sequentiality.
(c) Disease.
(d) Pollution.

3. Which of the following do cultures not involve, according to the reading?
(a) Norms.
(b) Religion.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Cosmology.

4. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?
(a) Leviticus.
(b) Specific order.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Natural order.

5. What does Douglas say in Chapter 2 is necessary for recovery?
(a) Washings.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Cheer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do people with wills and intelligence respond, according to Douglas?

3. What does Douglas describe boundaries as altering?

4. Who determines what pollution is and how it enters in the caste society Douglas describes?

5. What is the only thing that can control danger, according to Douglas?

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