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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As excrements pass the boundary of the body, what do they present to the cultures Douglas describes?
(a) Purity.
(b) Danger.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Pollution.

2. In the Hebrew religion, what could only be touched through sacrifice?
(a) Blood.
(b) Water.
(c) Pork.
(d) Beef.

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

4. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?
(a) Food indigestion.
(b) Drug indigestion.
(c) Being unpure.
(d) Eating something polluted.

5. What do anomalies represent?
(a) Purity.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Interpretations.
(d) Differences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas state determines whether menstrual blood is dangerous?

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

3. To maintain universal order, what does Douglas believe must occur?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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