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

2. What does Douglas claim miracle and magic are expected to bring?
(a) Health.
(b) Intervention.
(c) Healing.
(d) Innovation.

3. Which of the following are a part of primitive views, according to Douglas?
(a) Solely mechanical symbols.
(b) Solely pollution.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Symbols nobody can decipher now.

4. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Aid.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Patterns.
(d) Purity.

5. According to Douglas, rituals help to focus through what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Language.
(c) Religion.
(d) Framing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of myths incorporated undifferentiated conditions that provided a unified view of the world, stated by Douglas?

2. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?

3. Which of the following does Douglas believe rituals can alter by restating?

4. According to Malinowski, where do rituals derive from?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the rationale for the classification of animals.

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

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

5. How has anthropology shown the distinction between primitive and modern cultures?

6. What were Robertson's beliefs?

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

8. What were Durkheim's beliefs?

9. How does Douglas describe the primitive world view?

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

(see the answer keys)

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