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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 Douglas describe boundaries as altering?
(a) Conflicts.
(b) Personality.
(c) Religion.
(d) Shapes.

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

3. Which of the following transmits disease and has a toxic influence, according to Douglas?
(a) Aluminum.
(b) Hair.
(c) Flesh.
(d) Food.

4. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?
(a) Tolerant.
(b) Unified.
(c) Supernatural.
(d) Systematic.

5. In Chapter 7, what type of boundaries does society have?
(a) Shrill and peaceful.
(b) Introverted and outgoing.
(c) Internal and external.
(d) Polluted and purified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?

2. According to Chapter 1, what do contemporary practices divide?

3. What does Douglas think a system needs to be successful?

4. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?

5. Which act does Douglas claim led to the recovery of an entire village?

(see the answer key)

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