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Chapter 8 Practice Quiz
The Family and Intimate Relationships
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What is a nuclear family?
The legal union of two people, allowing them to live together and to have children
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A group of people who share a relationship by blood, marriage, or legal adoption living together
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More than two generations who share the same residence
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Two adults living with one or more children
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Which one of the following is NOT one of the ways marriage has become deinstitutionalized?
More couples are cohabiting.
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Roles of individuals have been questioned.
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Norms about children have changed.
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Divorce rates have remained the same from the 1970s onward.
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Which term refers to the average number of children per woman over her lifetime?
Birth rate
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Fertility rate
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Mean child rate
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Conception rate
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Which of the following is true about arranged marriages?
They tend to be spontaneous and less thought out.
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They are more focused on romantic love and often overlook other compatibility issues.
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They are carefully planned and considered by families and communities.
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They tend to lead to less love between husband and wife over time.
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Common law cohabitation is most popular in which province?
Ontario
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British Columbia
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Alberta
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Quebec
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Which type of marriage has a collective focus on the benefits for society as a whole?
institutional marriages
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companionate marriages
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individualized marriages
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collective marriages
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Which type of marriage tends to be more flexible and focused on each spouse's ability to develop and express themselves?
institutional marriages
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companionate marriages
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individualized marriages
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collective marriages
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In Canada, which type of marriage is illegal?
Common-law marriages
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Gay marriages
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Polygamous marriages
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Arranged marriages
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Kohn's studies showed that working-class mothers were more likely to rank which of the following as being an important characteristic for children?
Happiness
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Self-control
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Curiosity
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Neatness
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Which of the following is NOT a role played by families according to structural functionalist theorists?
Reproduction
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Socialization
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Conflict management
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Support
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An individual's family household is a group of people who share a relationship by blood, marriage, or legal adoption living together.
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An extended family is another way of referring to nuclear families.
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Common-law couples are twice as common in Ontario than anywhere else in Canada.
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Our basic understanding of what men and women "do" in a relationship is eroding, leading to a lack of clarity about how marriages and the family work in modern society.
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Changes in marriage and the family are unrelated to most larger social changes.
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Companionate marriages make a clear division of labour between a breadwinner and the homemaker.
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Individualized marriages look to embed individuals in the community of their spouse.
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Polygamy is defined as having one or more spouse at a time.
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The family's role in regulating sexual activity is declining.
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Conflict theorists see the family as harmonious and a source of mobility.
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