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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the reading's example, what act can be purified through sacrifice?
(a) Poisoning a lover.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Incest.
(d) Having a child out of wedlock.

2. Which of the following does not contribute to social control as described by Douglas?
(a) Coercion.
(b) Social awareness.
(c) Monetary incentives.
(d) Predictability.

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

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

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

6. What does Douglas say in Chapter 2 is necessary for recovery?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Cheer.
(c) Washings.
(d) Isolation.

7. For Douglas, what does winning require?
(a) Rationale.
(b) Separation.
(c) Purity.
(d) Pollution.

8. What does Douglas claim miracle and magic are expected to bring?
(a) Health.
(b) Intervention.
(c) Healing.
(d) Innovation.

9. According to Douglas, rituals help to focus through what?
(a) Language.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Religion.
(d) Framing.

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

11. Which act does Douglas claim led to the recovery of an entire village?
(a) Liver removal.
(b) Appendix removal.
(c) Emotional attachment.
(d) Tooth removal.

12. Which of the following does not interfere with separation in Douglas' beliefs?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Fighting in a polluted state.
(c) Eating an earth animal.
(d) Incest.

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

14. Which of the following did Malinowski study?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Music.
(c) Art.
(d) Linguistics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Douglas, what rules are humans meant to adhere to?

2. Which of the following transmits disease and has a toxic influence, according to Douglas?

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

4. What does the union between God and people involve in Douglas' view?

5. In Douglas' view, what does a lack of blessing create?

(see the answer keys)

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