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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Douglas claim found opposition between sacred and profane?
(a) Frazer.
(b) Smith.
(c) Durkehim.
(d) Robertson.

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

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

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

6. Which of the following does not interfere with separation in Douglas' beliefs?
(a) Fighting in a polluted state.
(b) Eating an earth animal.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Incest.

7. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?
(a) By studying philosophy.
(b) By studying Jewish religion.
(c) By studying the place of humans in the universe.
(d) By studying Durkeim's views.

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

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

10. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?
(a) New Testamant.
(b) Quran.
(c) Consitution.
(d) Old Testmanet.

11. What does Douglas state embraces harmony, order, and meaning?
(a) Sequentiality.
(b) Disease.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Rituals.

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

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

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

15. According to Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?
(a) Families.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Children.
(d) Individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes Douglas' pre-Copernican classification?

2. According to the reading's example, what act can be purified through sacrifice?

3. Where did the classification of animals come from?

4. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?

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

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