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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not described as being a men-centered religion?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Islam.
(c) Wicca.
(d) Judaism.

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

4. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?
(a) Cosmic pollution.
(b) Social pollution.
(c) Religion.
(d) Observing taboo.

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

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

7. Douglas states that which group of people regard external forms as empty?
(a) Sumerians.
(b) Christians.
(c) Romans.
(d) Americans.

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

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

10. According to Chapter 1, what do contemporary practices divide?
(a) Safe and unsafe.
(b) Dirty and clean.
(c) Knowledgeable and ignorant.
(d) Pure and Disgusting.

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

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

13. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?
(a) Order.
(b) Anomalies.
(c) Purity.
(d) Patterns.

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

15. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?
(a) Tolerant.
(b) Unified.
(c) Systematic.
(d) Supernatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?

2. According to Malinowski, where do rituals derive from?

3. Which of the following is the concept of contagion most a part of, according to Douglas?

4. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?

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

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