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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?
(a) Old Testmanet.
(b) New Testamant.
(c) Consitution.
(d) Quran.

2. What type of barrier crossing is treated as pollution as described by Douglas?
(a) Economic.
(b) Moral.
(c) Childish.
(d) Social.

3. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?
(a) Worship.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Reading.
(d) Bathing.

4. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Incompleteness.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Wholeness.

5. What do success-based beliefs lack, according to the reading?
(a) Hereditary powers.
(b) Order.
(c) Structure.
(d) Purity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas states that which group of people regard external forms as empty?

2. Which of the following describes the Southern Nayar girls?

3. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?

4. What does Genesis provide in relation to animals?

5. What do the Lele regard as the cause of early death and source of all evil?

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