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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Douglas describe as moving against nature?
(a) Hopping.
(b) Running.
(c) Flying.
(d) Crawling.

2. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?
(a) Eating something polluted.
(b) Drug indigestion.
(c) Food indigestion.
(d) Being unpure.

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

4. For rituals to be effective, what does Douglas believe they require?
(a) Harmony and blessings.
(b) Symbolism and hope.
(c) Skill and health.
(d) Faith and confidence.

5. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Aid.
(d) Purity.

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

7. According to Malinowski, where do rituals derive from?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Rationale.
(c) Logic.
(d) Emotions.

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

9. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?
(a) Faith.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Separation.

10. According to Purity and Danger, which of the following can an impersonal universal power not do?
(a) Punish.
(b) Reveal secrets.
(c) Make moral judgments.
(d) Reward.

11. Which of the following does Douglas believe rituals can alter by restating?
(a) Purity.
(b) Present.
(c) Future.
(d) Past.

12. Which of the following is an example of Douglas' social control?
(a) Passport.
(b) Television.
(c) Cars.
(d) Books.

13. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?
(a) It eliminates harmony.
(b) It creates danger.
(c) It harms children.
(d) I creates disorder.

14. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Smith.
(c) Robertson.
(d) Frazer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Malinowski study?

2. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?

3. To study purity and pollution, what does Douglas believe one must understand?

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

5. Which of the following does not contribute to social control as described by Douglas?

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