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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. According to Malinowski, where do rituals derive from?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Logic.
(d) Rationale.

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

3. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?
(a) The faith.
(b) The purity.
(c) The pollution.
(d) The sacred.

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

5. According to Douglas, who had contempt for primitive society through preconceived judgments?
(a) Durkheim.
(b) Frazer.
(c) Robertson.
(d) Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is specifically a result of men-centered religions in Douglas' view?

2. What do the effects of pollution involve, according to Douglas?

3. What does Douglas' social life depend on?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Frazer's beliefs?

2. Describe purification as it relates to Sumerian civilization.

3. How is schematizing disrupted, according to Douglas?

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

5. How does the Old Testament relate to purity, in Douglas' opinion?

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

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

8. Describe the role of compatibility for the Israelites.

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

10. What were Robertson's beliefs?

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