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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do people with wills and intelligence respond, according to Douglas?
(a) Motivationally.
(b) Ethically.
(c) Logically.
(d) Emotionally.

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

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

4. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Religion.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Social processes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?

2. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?

3. What does Genesis provide in relation to animals?

4. What does Douglas' social life depend on?

5. What does the union between God and people involve in Douglas' view?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is sequentiality vital to the rituals that Douglas describes?

2. How does Douglas describe fortune as it is related to cosmic alliances in different cultures?

3. How does Douglas describe the ways in which purity can be achieved?

4. What does Douglas describe as being the factors that rituals require?

5. How does Douglas believe that one can one maintain holiness?

6. How does Douglas describe the primitive world view?

7. What is the anti-ritual prejudice that Douglas describes?

8. What do rituals embrace as described in the reading?

9. How is schematizing disrupted, according to Douglas?

10. Describe the role of compatibility for the Israelites.

(see the answer keys)

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