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Test Bank For
Marriages and Families:
Diversity and Change Eighth Edition Mary Ann A. Schwartz BarBara M. Scott prepared by Carol Holdt 1 / 4
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CHAPTER ONE
MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES OVER TIME
True/False Multiple Choice Short Answer Essay Total Qs Remember 16 40 56 Understand 8 25 33 Apply 4 4 Analyze 5 5 Evaluate 2 2 Create 0
24 69 7 100
TRUE-FALSE
- Endogamy is the requirement that marriage must occur within a group.
Answer: True
Page: 2
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- Marriage and family are the same.
Answer: False
Page: 2
Difficulty=2
- Polygamy is best defined as the marriage of one man to several women.
Answer: False
Page: 3
Difficulty=2
- In the United States, there is primarily one dominant type of family structure.
Answer: False
Page: 2-3, 5
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- Although polyandry can be found in various parts of the world, it is rare.
Answer: True
Page: 3
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- Cenogamy is a form of group marriage.
Answer: True
Page: 4
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- When we marry or have an intimate relationship with someone or have children, we have created a family
of orientation.
Answer: False
Page: 4
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- The modified extended family is found only in rural areas.
Answer: False
Page: 6
Difficulty=1
- Another name for stepfamily is reconstituted.
Answer: True
Page: 5
Difficulty=1
- Race is no longer a significant issue affecting family life in the United States.
Answer: False
Page: 6
Difficulty=2
- The consensus is that China’s fertility rate has dropped to a level below replacement and its economic
growth has increased the per capita standard of living of its citizens by more than fourfold due to its one child policy.
Answer: False
Page: 8
Difficulty=2
- As we move into the twenty-first century, marriages and families have finally stabilized.
Answer: False
Page: 14
Difficulty=2
- The United States has one of the highest marriage rates in the industrialized world.
Answer: True
Page: 14
Difficulty=1
- Myths, although primarily false, frequently contain an element of truth.
Answer: True
Page: 11
Difficulty=1
- In some cultures, mating and childbirth occur outside legal marriage and sometimes without couples living
together.
Answer: True
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- Compared with today, the 1950s were characterized by higher birth, divorce and premarital pregnancy
rates.
Answer: False
Page: 12
Difficulty=2
- Research shows that the dominant family structure during the colonial period was the nuclear family.
Answer: True
Page: 15
Difficulty=1
- It was against the law in most Southern states for slaves to marry.
Answer: True
Page: 16
Difficulty=2
- Pennsylvania State University Sociology Professor Samuel Richards has utilized DNA testing in his
classroom in order to deepen conversations about race.
Answer: True
Page: 17
Difficulty=1
- Over the past hundred years there has been a steady decline in the number of mothers of small children who
are in the labor force.
Answer: False
Page: 25
Difficulty=2
- As a male living in the nineteenth century, your masculinity would be determined by your ability to provide
for your family.
Answer: True
Page: 19
Difficulty=2
- The marriage rate decreased in the United States as a result of World War II.
Answer: False
Page: 23
Difficulty=1
- During World War II, women comprised a significant portion of the factory labor force.
Answer: True
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Difficulty=1
- According to the Census Bureau, nonfamily households can be made up of elderly individuals living alone.
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