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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did the classification of animals come from?
(a) Lot.
(b) Moses.
(c) Job.
(d) Leviticus.

4. 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.

5. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Specific order.
(d) Natural order.

6. According to Douglas, who had contempt for primitive society through preconceived judgments?
(a) Smith.
(b) Robertson.
(c) Frazer.
(d) Durkheim.

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

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

9. To study purity and pollution, what does Douglas believe one must understand?
(a) Hygiene concepts.
(b) Jewish concepts.
(c) Religious concepts.
(d) Reproductive health.

10. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?
(a) Sumerians.
(b) Israelites.
(c) Americans.
(d) Russians.

11. What do anomalies represent?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Interpretations.
(c) Differences.
(d) Purity.

12. According to Frazer, what did the primitive people fail to incorporate in religion?
(a) Love.
(b) Ethics.
(c) A deity.
(d) Churches.

13. According to Chapter 1, what do contemporary practices divide?
(a) Dirty and clean.
(b) Knowledgeable and ignorant.
(c) Pure and Disgusting.
(d) Safe and unsafe.

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

15. In which type of world view does Douglas believe the world is seen as subjective and personal?
(a) Pure.
(b) Modern.
(c) Polluted.
(d) Primitive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?

3. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?

4. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?

5. What does Douglas describe rituals as requiring?

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