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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Separation.
(c) Faith.
(d) Holiness.

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

3. In Douglas' view, what does a lack of blessing create?
(a) Unity.
(b) Anger.
(c) Separation.
(d) Confusion.

4. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?
(a) The pollution.
(b) The purity.
(c) The faith.
(d) The sacred.

5. Which of the following does not interfere with separation in Douglas' beliefs?
(a) Incest.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Fighting in a polluted state.
(d) Eating an earth animal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do ambiguities allow for?

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

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

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

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

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