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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Douglas' view, what does a lack of blessing create?
(a) Separation.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Unity.

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

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

4. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?
(a) Separation.
(b) Peace.
(c) Unity.
(d) Hygiene.

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

6. According to Purity and Danger, which of the following can an impersonal universal power not do?
(a) Reward.
(b) Reveal secrets.
(c) Punish.
(d) Make moral judgments.

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

8. Which of the following did Malinowski study?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Music.
(d) Art.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?
(a) Smith.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Robertson.
(d) Durkheim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?

2. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?

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

4. Which of the following do days signify to Douglas?

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

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