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

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

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

4. Which of the following is specifically a result of men-centered religions in Douglas' view?
(a) Equality.
(b) A break from technical development.
(c) Higher social control.
(d) A love for linguistics.

5. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?
(a) Faith.
(b) Separation.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Holiness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Douglas states that which group of people regard external forms as empty?

3. For rituals to be effective, what does Douglas believe they require?

4. According to Douglas, who had contempt for primitive society through preconceived judgments?

5. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Douglas believe you need to understand to study purity?

2. Describe economic reality in relation to primitive and modern cultures, according to Douglas.

3. What were Robertson's beliefs?

4. What is the role of men-centered religions on a culture as described by Douglas?

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

6. What does Douglas believe has led to the belief that primitive cultures are inferior?

7. Describe medical materialism as it is described in Purity and Danger.

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

9. What is involved in the categorization that Douglas describes?

10. Describe the role of compatibility for the Israelites.

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