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

2. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?
(a) Ritual.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Ethics training.
(d) Murder.

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

4. What do ambiguities allow for?
(a) Different interpretations.
(b) Different emotions.
(c) Purities.
(d) Pollutions.

5. Which of the following do days signify to Douglas?
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Practices.
(d) Blessings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?

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

3. What does Douglas claim miracle and magic are expected to bring?

4. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?

5. Symbolic rituals involving religious purity have been concerned with ideas of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Frazer's beliefs?

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

3. What does morality ensure, according to Douglas?

4. Describe the role of compatibility for the Israelites.

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

6. What was Smith's perception of magic?

7. What is isolation's role in health concerns?

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

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

10. Describe purification as it relates to Sumerian civilization.

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