Question 1

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

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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.

Question 2

A system of marriage that unites two partners is called

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A)   polygyny.
B)   polygamy.
C)   polyandry.
D)   monogamy.

Question 3

What are three social functions of the family?

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Question 4

The concept "homogamy" means that

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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.

Question 5

Identify at least four factors that are related to the high divorce rate in Canada.

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1. Changing societal norms and attitudes...

Question 6

The dominant residential form in Canada is neolocality.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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

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A)   patrilocal.
B)   matrilineal.
C)   matrilocal.
D)   polygynous.

Question 8

Today's baby boomers are often called the "sandwich generation" because

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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.

Question 9

In today's high-income nations, children are

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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.

Question 10

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

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A)   Denmark
B)   Canada
C)   Sweden
D)   the United States

Question 11

Why do more Canadian households contain a single person?

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There are several factors contributing t...

Question 12

Sexual activity outside marriage is called infidelity.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Why do some analysts (especially those guided by the structural-functional approach) describe the family as "the backbone of society"? That is, what important things do families do for society? To what degree could other social institutions (including government) perform these tasks in place of the family?

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Some analysts, especially those guided b...

Question 14

A social-exchange analysis of family life is likely to consider

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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.

Question 15

Parents and children form an extended family.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Native residential schools are largely responsible for Aboriginal elders losing their authority in families.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The family is a social institution that is found in

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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.

Question 18

In Canada, a recent trend involving parenting is that

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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 20.

Question 19

Feminist analysis links the operation of the family to patriarchy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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

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A)   class
B)   race
C)   gender
D)   ethnicity

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