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Chapter 10 Practice Quiz
Family
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In 2011, why did Statistics Canada announce that it would no longer be tracking annual marriage and divorce rates?
The changing nature of marital relationships
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The skyrocketing number of divorces
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The change in divorce laws every few years
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The wide variety of definitions of "marriage"
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The consistency of the data over the past century
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Which term refers to marrying outside of one's group?
Endogamy
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Misogyny
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Exogamy
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Love potential
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Companionate
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What type of household consists of two or more adults who are related but not married to each other and hence could reasonably to live separately?
A simple household
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A complex household
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A matrilineal household
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A patrilineal household
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A complicated household
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Which term is used to describe the number of marriages per 1000 in a given population?
National marriage rate
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Average marriage rate
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Crude marriage rate
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Refined marriage rate
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Actual marriage rate
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What age group is most likely to be living alone?
People in their 20s
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Men in their 20s
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Women in their 20s
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Middle-aged men
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People over 85
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Which region in Canada has the highest rate of teenage mothers?
Indigenous reservation
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Small population centres
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Industrial towns
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Urban centres
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Rural areas
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As of 2008, what was the average age of first marriage for men?
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25.5
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27.5
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28.9
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31.1
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Marita and James marry. Marita has a young child from a previous relationship who lives with them. What term describes this type of family?
Intact family
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Simple stepfamily
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Complex stepfamily
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Patrilineal family
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Complex household
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What type of family is composed of a parent or parents and their children?
Nuclear
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Extended
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Matrilineal
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Patrilineal
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Sexual sterilization of a cultural group is a form of what?
Genocide
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Health precaution
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Prejudice
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Racism
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Murder
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"Boomerang kids" return home after going away to college or university.
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The high number of people living alone in Quebec has to do with the various sociocultural and economic developments that occurred in Quebec during the Quiet Revolution.
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Most lone-parent families in Canada began as two-parent families.
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Canada's fertility rate is below the replacement rate.
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The term "matrilineal" refers to laws that favour women.
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Ontario has the highest cohabitation rate in Canada.
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The cohabitation rate in the United States is always higher than it is in Canada.
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In the United States, over 200,000 marriages took place in which one partner was a minor.
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A "simple household" consists of unrelated adults with or without children.
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Young people continue to defer marriage.
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