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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?
(a) The purity.
(b) The sacred.
(c) The faith.
(d) The pollution.

2. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Identifying pure and impure.
(c) Fitting within certain parameters.
(d) Stable worlds.

3. Which of the following is specifically a result of men-centered religions in Douglas' view?
(a) Equality.
(b) Higher social control.
(c) A love for linguistics.
(d) A break from technical development.

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

5. Which of the following is not described as being a men-centered religion?
(a) Islam.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Wicca.

6. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Incestual.
(c) Neurotic.
(d) Ritualistic.

7. According to Douglas, what rules are humans meant to adhere to?
(a) Morality.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Strength.

8. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?
(a) Separation.
(b) Hygiene.
(c) Unity.
(d) Peace.

9. What does the union between God and people involve in Douglas' view?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Purity.

10. Douglas believes that primitive cultures experience less of which of the following?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Social control.
(c) Language.
(d) Development.

11. What do the effects of pollution involve, according to Douglas?
(a) Religious offense.
(b) Social offense.
(c) Ritual offense.
(d) Cosmic offense.

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

13. What do the Dinka people do to perform a sacrifice in the reading?
(a) Killing animals.
(b) Hanging prisoners.
(c) Cutting victims.
(d) Performing a medical procedure.

14. Which of the following do Douglas' assumptions not allow for?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Schematizing.
(d) Organization.

15. Which group of people have practices to prevent and cure malaria?
(a) Sumerian.
(b) Christians.
(c) Hencem.
(d) Dinka.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?

2. What do ambiguities allow for?

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

4. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?

5. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?

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