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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is medical materialism based on?
(a) Sanitary conditions.
(b) Sumerian beliefs.
(c) Practical health routines.
(d) Philosophical beliefs.

2. Which of the following relationships is unclear to Douglas?
(a) Pollution and science.
(b) Religion and magic.
(c) Ritual and purity.
(d) Science and magic.

3. What does Douglas believe has been assumed to be based on false beliefs in magic?
(a) Comparative religion.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Purity.
(d) Ethics.

4. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?
(a) Lack of pollution or purity.
(b) Theology.
(c) Classical dramatists.
(d) Jewish concepts.

5. What do ambiguities allow for?
(a) Different emotions.
(b) Purities.
(c) Pollutions.
(d) Different interpretations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?

3. According to Douglas, who had contempt for primitive society through preconceived judgments?

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

5. What does order reject, according to Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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