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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do ambiguities allow for?
(a) Different emotions.
(b) Pollutions.
(c) Different interpretations.
(d) Purities.

2. Which of the following do days signify to Douglas?
(a) Practices.
(b) Religion.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Linguistics.

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

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

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

6. In modern societies, how does Douglas believe that wealth distributed?
(a) Role specializations.
(b) Social pollution.
(c) Market considerations.
(d) Unitiy.

7. What does Douglas describe rituals as requiring?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Sequentiality.
(d) Blessings.

8. Which of the following describes Douglas' pre-Copernican classification?
(a) Non-polluting.
(b) Non-pure.
(c) Non-objective.
(d) Non-subjective.

9. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?
(a) Theology.
(b) Jewish concepts.
(c) Classical dramatists.
(d) Lack of pollution or purity.

10. What is medical materialism based on?
(a) Sanitary conditions.
(b) Philosophical beliefs.
(c) Practical health routines.
(d) Sumerian beliefs.

11. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?
(a) Boundaries are established.
(b) Ideas are ordered.
(c) Two categories of animals must be eaten with each meal.
(d) Margins are kept according to rituals of separation.

12. How do people with wills and intelligence respond, according to Douglas?
(a) Logically.
(b) Ethically.
(c) Motivationally.
(d) Emotionally.

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

14. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?
(a) By studying Jewish religion.
(b) By studying philosophy.
(c) By studying Durkeim's views.
(d) By studying the place of humans in the universe.

15. Who separated magic from morals and religion?
(a) Durkheim.
(b) Robertson and Durkheim.
(c) Smith and Frazer.
(d) Douglas and Frazer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?

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

3. Which group of people have practices to prevent and cure malaria?

4. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?

5. What, according to Douglas, is used as a separation to avoid disease?

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