Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Douglas believe can only be effective if it attracts faith?
(a) Blessings.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Money.
(d) Family.

2. Where did the classification of animals come from?
(a) Job.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Lot.
(d) Moses.

3. Primitive ideas of which item have various symbolic meanings, due to Douglas' claims?
(a) Urine.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Grass.

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

5. What does Douglas claim miracle and magic are expected to bring?
(a) Health.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Healing.
(d) Intervention.

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

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

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

9. According to Frazer, what did magic lead to?
(a) Inability to distinguish between associations and reality.
(b) Inability to believe in a religion.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) The best way to live.

10. Douglas believes that primitive cultures experience less of which of the following?
(a) Development.
(b) Language.
(c) Social control.
(d) Awareness.

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

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

13. Which of the following is not a social control that Douglas lists?
(a) Cell phone.
(b) License.
(c) Etiquette.
(d) Norms.

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

15. For rituals to be effective, what does Douglas believe they require?
(a) Symbolism and hope.
(b) Harmony and blessings.
(c) Skill and health.
(d) Faith and confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglas believe has inspired the distinction between primitive and non-primitive cultures?

2. Which of the following does not contribute to social control as described by Douglas?

3. What does holiness imply, according to Douglas?

4. Which of the following describes Douglas' pre-Copernican classification?

5. Which item does Douglas require for success?

(see the answer keys)

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