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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 is not involved in categorizing?
(a) Anomaly.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Order.
(d) Authority.

2. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?
(a) Neurotic.
(b) Incestual.
(c) Ritualistic.
(d) Intelligent.

3. What does Douglas' social life depend on?
(a) Writing.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Symbolic expressions.
(d) Linguistics.

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

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

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

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

8. When comparing culture, what does Douglas believe should be analyzed through the nature of historical process?
(a) Unity and variety.
(b) Alignment and purity.
(c) Pollution and society.
(d) Rationale and logic.

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

10. To maintain universal order, what does Douglas believe must occur?
(a) Individuals must maintain proper bathing rituals.
(b) Individuals must adhere to their class.
(c) Groups must learn to cooperate.
(d) Individuals must learn to bless each other.

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

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

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

14. What, according to Douglas, is used as a separation to avoid disease?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Washings.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) Soap.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is specifically a result of men-centered religions in Douglas' view?

2. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?

3. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?

4. Which of the following are a part of primitive views, according to Douglas?

5. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?

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