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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?
(a) Norms.
(b) Cell phone.
(c) License.
(d) Etiquette.

2. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?
(a) Pollution and defilement.
(b) Disgust and hatred.
(c) Purity and theft.
(d) Pollution and symbolism.

3. Douglas states that which group of people regard external forms as empty?
(a) Romans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Christians.
(d) Sumerians.

4. Which of the following relationships is unclear to Douglas?
(a) Religion and magic.
(b) Pollution and science.
(c) Science and magic.
(d) Ritual and purity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an example of Douglas' social control?

2. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?

3. Douglas states that pollution only involves situations that have which kind of structures?

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

5. What do rituals of purification incorporate, as described by Douglas?

(see the answer key)

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