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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only types of ideas that Douglas believes should be adopted?
(a) Classified.
(b) Orderly.
(c) Polluted.
(d) Compatible.

2. What example of a people is given to demonstration insulation from wrong practices, according to Douglas?
(a) Russians.
(b) Sumerians.
(c) Americans.
(d) Israelites.

3. According to Frazer, what did the primitive people fail to incorporate in religion?
(a) Ethics.
(b) A deity.
(c) Love.
(d) Churches.

4. Douglas states that if progress is considered to be differentiation, primitive culture is more what?
(a) Systematic.
(b) Tolerant.
(c) Supernatural.
(d) Unified.

5. What, according to Douglas, is used as a separation to avoid disease?
(a) Psychology.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) Washings.
(d) Soap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of behavior does the pollution Douglas describes reflect?

2. Why do cultures avoid pollution, according to Purity and Danger?

3. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?

4. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?

5. In which type of world view does Douglas believe the world is seen as subjective and personal?

(see the answer key)

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