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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 an example of Douglas' social control?
(a) Passport.
(b) Cars.
(c) Books.
(d) Television.

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

3. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?
(a) Grass.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Urine.
(d) Vegetables.

4. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?
(a) Murder.
(b) Ethics training.
(c) Ritual.
(d) The Bible.

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

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

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

8. Who separated magic from morals and religion?
(a) Smith and Frazer.
(b) Douglas and Frazer.
(c) Robertson and Durkheim.
(d) Durkheim.

9. Which of the following transmits disease and has a toxic influence, according to Douglas?
(a) Hair.
(b) Flesh.
(c) Food.
(d) Aluminum.

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 did Malinowski study?
(a) Art.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Music.
(d) Linguistics.

12. Which group of people have practices to prevent and cure malaria?
(a) Sumerian.
(b) Dinka.
(c) Christians.
(d) Hencem.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?

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

3. Which of the following relationships is unclear to Douglas?

4. Which of the following would not be appropriate for an earth animal, according to the classification?

5. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?

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