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Multiple Choice Questions. 1) Which of the following is TRUE?

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1) Which of the following is TRUE?

a. Canada has changed its formal definition of marriage to include same-sex relationships

b. Approximately 20% of Canadian women are lesbians

c. All children raised by lesbian mothers, thus far, have grown up to be homosexual

d. In the past, those lesbians who had left heterosexual relationships had no trouble gaining custody of their children

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 452

Skill: Factual

 

2) The family is a social institution that is found in:

a. most but not all societies.

b. about half of human societies in the world today.

c. high-income nations but not in most low-income nations.

d. every society.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 452

Skill: Factual

 

3) Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of “marriage”?

a. sexual activity

b. love

c. a legal relationship

d. economic cooperation

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 452-453

Skill: Conceptual

 

4) People include as "kin" others linked by:

a. having the same ancestors.

b. marriage.

c. adoption.

d. All of the above are a basis for kinship.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 453

Skill: Conceptual

 

5) Which of the following are traits of marriage?

a. a legally approved relationship

b. sexual activity and childbearing

c. economic cooperation

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 453

Skill: Conceptual

 

6) A family that includes parents and children as well as other kin is called:

a. a nuclear family.

b. an extended family.

c. a family of affinity.

d. a conjugal family.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 453

Skill: Conceptual

 

7) A family composed of one or two parents and their children is called:

a. a nuclear family.

b. an extended family.

c. a family of affinity.

d. a consanguine family.

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 453

Skill: Conceptual

 

8) Celebrity couples that we see in the mass media illustrate the fact that:

a. nuclear families have changed little in recent decades.

b. most people live in extended families.

c. families take many, diverse forms.

d. fewer and fewer people want to live in families.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Applied

 

9) The concept "endogamy" refers to marriage between:

a. people of the same sex.

b. people of different social categories.

c. people of the same social category.

d. people related by birth.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Conceptual

 

10) A system of marriage that unites two partners is called:

a. polygyny.

b. polygamy.

c. polyandry.

d. monogamy.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Conceptual

 

11) A system of marriage that unites one woman with two or more men is called:

a. polygyny.

b. polygamy.

c. polyandry.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Conceptual

 

12) To which region of the world would you travel if you wanted to visit many countries where the law permits polygamy?

a. both Africa and Asia

b. North America

c. South America

d. Scandinavia

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Applied

 

13) The concept "patrilocality" refers to:

a. rule of men over women.

b. a residential pattern by which a married couple lives near the husband’s family.

c. a system of tracing descent through males.

d. a family composed of only males.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Conceptual

 

14) Assume you were visiting a society in which people traced family ties only through women. This society would correctly be called:

a. patrilocal.

b. matrilineal.

c. matrilocal.

d. polygynous.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Applied

 

15) Typically, high-income societies make use of which of the following systems to trace ancestry?

a. bilateral descent

b. matrilineal descent

c. patrilineal descent

d. None of the above is correct.

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Factual

 

16) Matrilineal descent is typically found in which type of societies?

a. hunting and gathering, where women gather vegetation

b. horticultural, where women are the main food producers

c. industrial, where women enter the workplace

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 454

Skill: Factual

 

17) Which of the following are counted among the functions of the family?

a. socialization of the young

b. regulation of sexual activity

c. social placement

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 456-457

Skill: Factual

 

18) The incest taboo:

a. exists only in industrial societies.

b. is found in all societies.

c. is found among all living species.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 456

Skill: Conceptual

 

19) Following the structural-functional approach, the family:

a. operates to perpetuate social inequality.

b. is important enough to be called the backbone of society.

c. encourages patriarchy.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 456

Skill: Factual

 

20) A social-exchange analysis of family life is likely consider:

a. how families keep society as a whole operating.

b. how families perpetuate social inequality.

c. how individuals select partners who offer about as much as they do.

d. how families regulate sexual activity.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 457-458

Skill: Applied

 

21) Social conflict and feminist analysis explains that families perpetuate social inequality in U.S. society through:

a. inheritance of private property.

b. encouraging patriarchy.

c. passing on racial and ethnic inequality.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 457

Skill: Applied

 

22) In traditional regions of many lower-income countries, such as Sri Lanka, marriage:

a. has little to do with romantic love.

b. is unknown.

c. is delayed until the people reach their thirties.

d. almost always ends in divorce.

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 459

Skill: Factual

 

23) The concept "homogamy" means that:

a. people marry because they benefit from being married.

b. women usually marry older men.

c. people marry others who are socially like themselves.

d. most marriages are based on romantic love.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 459

Skill: Conceptual

 

24) In Canada, romantic love:

a. is the reason most people expect to marry.

b. is not a very stable foundation for marriage.

c. may contribute to a high divorce rate.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 459

Skill: Factual

 

25) What is the effect of industrialization on the number of children in a typical family?

a. Families have more children.

b. Families have the same number of children.

c. Families have fewer children.

d. Families no longer care about how many children they have.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 460

Skill: Factual

 

26) In today’s high-income nations, children are:

a. an economic asset.

b. an economic liability.

c. able to earn more than what parents spend to raise them.

d. leaving home to go to work earlier in life than ever before.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 460

Skill: Factual

 

27) In Canada, a recent trend involving parenting is that:

a. women are having more children.

b. women are marrying earlier in life.

c. more adults are delaying having children or choosing to remain childless.

d. most men are now marrying before age twenty.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 460

Skill: Factual

 

28) An important consideration leading many parents to limit the number of children they have is:

a. the fear of an "empty nest" later on.

b. the high cost of raising children.

c. the approval of extended family members.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 460

Skill: Factual

 

29) The term "empty nest" refers to:

a. families whose children have grown and left home.

b. women who choose to remain single.

c. women who marry but choose to remain childless.

d. couples who are unable to have a child.

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 461

Skill: Conceptual

 

30) The most difficult transition in married life is typically:

a. the birth of a first child.

b. the death of a spouse.

c. the last child leaving home.

d. retirement.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 461

Skill: Factual

 

31) Today’s baby boomers are often called the “sandwich generation” because:

a. of their love of fast food.

b. they do not easily mix family and work responsibilities.

c. their families rarely eat meals together.

d. they spend time caring for both children and aging parents.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 461

Skill: Conceptual

 

32) Describing the lives of working-class women, Lillian Rubin reported that the typical woman in her study said she wanted a husband who:

a. would confide in her.

b. was handsome.

c. had a steady job and was not violent.

d. was rich.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 461

Skill: Factual

 

33) According to your text, social class determines a family’s financial security and _____________.

a. chance of relationship success

b. range of opportunities

c. amount of personal contact with grown children

d. rate of infidelity

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 461

Skill: Conceptual

 

34) There are approximately ______ Aboriginal communities in Canada.

a. 100

b. 450

c. 700

d. 1525

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 462

Skill: Factual

 

35) About _________ the Aboriginal population lives off-reserve.

a. 10%

b. 30%

c. 50%

d. 85%

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 463

Skill: Factual

 

36) When did the federal government formally apologize to Aboriginal people for the “tragedy of residential schools”?

a. 1940

b. 1986

c. 2008

d. It never has apologized.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 464

Skill: Factual

 

37) Over the past century, ____________ has mattered less and less to those choosing a marriage partner.

a. class

b. race

c. gender

d. ethnicity

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 465

Skill: Conceptual

 

38) Jessie Bernard claimed that marriage:

a. benefits women more than men.

b. benefits both women and men equally.

c. benefits men more than women.

d. is harmful to both women and men.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 464

Skill: Factual

 

39) Which country has the highest divorce rate in the world?

a. Canada

b. Sweden

c. Germany

d. United States

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 465

Skill: Factual

 

40) Which of the following are reasons for the rise in divorce rates in Canada?

a. rising individualism

b. romantic love often fades.

c. more women are less economically dependent on men

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 465-466

Skill: Factual

 

41) Based on the text, which of the following categories of people would you expect to have the highest risk of divorce?

a. young people who marry after a short courtship

b. a couple facing a wanted and expected pregnancy

c. a couple whose parents never experienced divorce

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 466

Skill: Applied

 

42) Richard J Gelles calls ______________ “the most violent group in society with the exception of the police and the military”.

a. government

b. educational system

c. state

d. family

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 466

Skill: Conceptual

 

43) Almost all adults who abuse children typically have what in common?

a. They are middle class.

b. They are women.

c. They were abused themselves as children.

d. They were married at a very young age.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 469

Skill: Factual

 

44) Research shows that growing up in a single-parent family:

a. is beneficial to children.

b. has no effect on children.

c. can disadvantage children.

d. is beneficial to boys, but harmful to girls.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 470

Skill: Factual

 

45) Mounting research suggests that cohabitation:

a. strengthens a couple’s commitment to one another.

b. may actually discourage marriage.

c. increases the financial security of children.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 470-472

Skill: Factual

 

46) In 1989, which country became the first to permit legal same-sex partnerships with many of the benefits of marriage?

a. Denmark

b. Canada

c. Sweden

d. the United States

 

Answer: a

Page Reference: 471

Skill: Factual

 

47) Looking for evidence about how much the traditional family is eroding, you might point to the fact that:

a. singlehood is up.

b. the divorce rate is up.

c. more children are born to single mothers.

d. All of the above are correct.

 

Answer: d

Page Reference: 471-472

Skill: Applied

 

48) Looking ahead twenty years in Canada, we can predict with confidence that:

a. the divorce rate will drop dramatically.

b. most people will not marry.

c. family life will be diverse.

d. women will play an ever-smaller role in child rearing.

 

Answer: c

Page Reference: 473

Skill: Factual

 

49) The “golden age of families” in the mass media was in the:

a. 1930s

b. 1950s

c. 1980s

d. 1990s

 

Answer: b

Page Reference: 473

Skill: Factual

 

 


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