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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Douglas, what rules are humans meant to adhere to?
(a) Strength.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Morality.
(d) Ethics.

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

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

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

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

7. What does Douglas believe can only be effective if it attracts faith?
(a) Family.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Money.
(d) Blessings.

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

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

10. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?
(a) License.
(b) Norms.
(c) Etiquette.
(d) Cell phone.

11. For rituals to be effective, what does Douglas believe they require?
(a) Skill and health.
(b) Faith and confidence.
(c) Harmony and blessings.
(d) Symbolism and hope.

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

13. Which type of myths incorporated undifferentiated conditions that provided a unified view of the world, stated by Douglas?
(a) Indian.
(b) Sumerian.
(c) Roman.
(d) Greek.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?

2. According to Douglas, who had contempt for primitive society through preconceived judgments?

3. To maintain universal order, what does Douglas believe must occur?

4. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?

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

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