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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not involved in the patterns Douglas suggests?
(a) Stable worlds.
(b) Fitting within certain parameters.
(c) Identifying pure and impure.
(d) Harmony.

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

3. Douglas states that which group of people regard external forms as empty?
(a) Sumerians.
(b) Romans.
(c) Christians.
(d) Americans.

4. According to the reading's example, what act can be purified through sacrifice?
(a) Poisoning a lover.
(b) Incest.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Having a child out of wedlock.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the separation of animals referred to as in the reading?

2. According to Durkheim, the rules of separation are features of what?

3. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?

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

5. Which type of myths incorporated undifferentiated conditions that provided a unified view of the world, stated by Douglas?

(see the answer key)

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