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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Douglas, what does winning require?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Rationale.
(c) Separation.
(d) Purity.

2. Who criticized Frazer for being complacent?
(a) Smith.
(b) Durkheim.
(c) Robertson.
(d) Douglas.

3. What does Douglas say primitive cultures represent more than modern cultures?
(a) Fragmented rules.
(b) Purity.
(c) Pattern rules.
(d) Rituals and rites.

4. Which of the following do Douglas' assumptions not allow for?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Organization.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Schematizing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Frazer, what did the primitive people fail to incorporate in religion?

2. What is medical materialism based on?

3. Which of the following does Douglas believe can disrupt schematizing?

4. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?

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

(see the answer key)

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