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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?
(a) Being unpure.
(b) Food indigestion.
(c) Eating something polluted.
(d) Drug indigestion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?

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

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

4. Which of the following are a part of primitive views, according to Douglas?

5. What do Greek studies of purity and impurity involve?

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