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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do boundaries represent to Douglas?
(a) Purity.
(b) Shape.
(c) Danger.
(d) Religion.

2. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Comparative religion.
(d) Purity.

3. What does the reading state success-based beliefs represent?
(a) Distribution of wealth.
(b) Distribution of positive power.
(c) Distribution of purity and pollution.
(d) Distribution of status.

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

5. Who do people at the margins of society represent danger to, according to Douglas' view?
(a) Society and themselves.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their family and themselves.
(d) Their tribe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?

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

4. Who separated magic from morals and religion?

5. In Chapter 6, what is considered to be both part of authority and other social structures?

(see the answer key)

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