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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Durkheim view ritual as symbolic of?
(a) Religion.
(b) Social processes.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Pollution.

3. Which of the following did Malinowski study?
(a) Music.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Art.

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

5. What does Douglas state embraces harmony, order, and meaning?
(a) Disease.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Sequentiality.
(d) Rituals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?

2. What does Douglas describe as morality's intent to ensure?

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

4. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?

5. What does the union between God and people involve in Douglas' view?

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