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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is medical materialism based on?
(a) Sumerian beliefs.
(b) Sanitary conditions.
(c) Philosophical beliefs.
(d) Practical health routines.

3. What do anomalies represent?
(a) Interpretations.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Differences.
(d) Purity.

4. Which of the following serves as Douglas' distinction between primitive and modern culture?
(a) Observing taboo.
(b) Social pollution.
(c) Cosmic pollution.
(d) Religion.

5. Which of the following is not involved in categorizing?
(a) Order.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Anomaly.
(d) Authority.

6. What do the effects of pollution involve, according to Douglas?
(a) Cosmic offense.
(b) Ritual offense.
(c) Religious offense.
(d) Social offense.

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

8. Douglas believes that primitive cultures are wrongly assumed to be which of the following?
(a) Incestual.
(b) Neurotic.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Ritualistic.

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

10. What does Douglas say in Chapter 2 is necessary for recovery?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Washings.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Cheer.

11. Which act does Douglas claim led to the recovery of an entire village?
(a) Appendix removal.
(b) Liver removal.
(c) Tooth removal.
(d) Emotional attachment.

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

13. What do the Dinka people do to perform a sacrifice in the reading?
(a) Hanging prisoners.
(b) Performing a medical procedure.
(c) Killing animals.
(d) Cutting victims.

14. Douglas believes that if you maintain holiness, what will you be safe from?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Wholeness.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Incompleteness.

15. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Separation.
(c) Unity.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas' social life depend on?

2. Douglas states that which of the following has been excused by dreams?

3. According to Douglas, rituals help to focus through what?

4. What do ambiguities allow for?

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

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