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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?
(a) Religion.
(b) Social processes.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Ethics.

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

6. Douglas states that which group of people regard external forms as empty?
(a) Christians.
(b) Sumerians.
(c) Romans.
(d) Americans.

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

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

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

10. According to Frazer, what did magic lead to?
(a) Inability to believe in a religion.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) The best way to live.
(d) Inability to distinguish between associations and reality.

11. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?
(a) Order.
(b) Anomaly.
(c) Authority.
(d) Patterns.

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

13. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?
(a) Classified.
(b) Compatible.
(c) Orderly.
(d) Polluted.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?

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

3. What does Douglas describe rituals as requiring?

4. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?

5. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?

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