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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 Douglas, morality is wrongly assumed to protect who?
(a) Families.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Children.
(d) Individuals.

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

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

4. Douglas states that all of the following can help to achieve purity except for what?
(a) Ideas are ordered.
(b) Boundaries are established.
(c) Margins are kept according to rituals of separation.
(d) Two categories of animals must be eaten with each meal.

5. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?
(a) Urine.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Grass.
(d) Vegetables.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?

3. Which of the following does Douglas describe primitive cultures as using?

4. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?

5. According to Chapter 1, what do contemporary practices divide?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe purification as it relates to Sumerian civilization.

2. In Douglas' book, what is the difference between holiness and blessing?

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

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

5. How does Douglas describe the primitive world view?

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

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

8. What were Robertson's beliefs?

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

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

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