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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?
(a) Order.
(b) Purity.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Filth.

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

3. How can ideas of contagion be understood, according to Douglas' beliefs?
(a) By studying Durkeim's views.
(b) By studying the place of humans in the universe.
(c) By studying Jewish religion.
(d) By studying philosophy.

4. Whose beliefs did Durkheim adopt when it came to definitions of primitive religion?
(a) Smith.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Robertson.
(d) Frazer.

5. What does Douglas believe that laws and rules involving food and eating were made to deal with?
(a) Pollution and symbolism.
(b) Pollution and defilement.
(c) Purity and theft.
(d) Disgust and hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Frazer, what did magic lead to?

2. Which of the following would not be appropriate for an earth animal, according to the classification?

3. Which of the following does not interfere with separation in Douglas' beliefs?

4. What is medical materialism based on?

5. To study purity and pollution, what does Douglas believe one must understand?

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