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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 state embraces harmony, order, and meaning?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Sequentiality.
(d) Disease.

2. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?
(a) Social pollution.
(b) Cosmic pollution.
(c) Observing taboo.
(d) Religion.

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

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

5. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Anomalies.
(c) Order.
(d) Purity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?

2. Which of the following relationships is unclear to Douglas?

3. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?

4. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?

5. What, according to Douglas, is used as a separation to avoid disease?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were Robertson's beliefs?

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

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

6. What conclusions did Malinowski come to when he studied primitive cultures?

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

8. Describe the rationale for the classification of animals.

9. What were Frazer's beliefs?

10. Describe the role of compatibility for the Israelites.

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