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Chap.06: Hispanic American, Asian American, and Native American Families
01. Nearly two-thirds of Japanese and Chinese births in the United States were to mothers who were:
(a) teenagers (c) between the ages of 20 and 24
(b) between the ages of 25 and 34 (d) at least 35 years of age
Answer = D Source: 219
Chap.7: Partnering and Marriage Formation
02. Researchers use different comparison measures to evaluate the tendency of a group to marry outside
its own group (e.g., race, class, religion). One such measure starts with the proportion of the total
population represented by a particular group, then estimates the percentage of that group who would
have selected a mate outside their own group if they had chosen their partners randomly. This measure
is called the ___ rate for intermarriage:
(a) criterion (c) expected
(b) hypothetical (d) derived
Answer = C Source: 252
Chap.8: Premarital and Nonmarital Relationships
03. Although early “filter theories” of mate selection acknowledged that defines our field of eligible partners,
they focused heavily on individual need fulfillment or interactional processes of attraction. The
exception to this concentration on personal and interactional factors is .
(a) Coleman’s social construction theory (c) Barnard’s “systems theory of attraction”
(b) Reiss’s “wheel theory of love” (d) Merton’s “macro mating” paradigm
Answer = B Source: 275-276
Chap. 9: Nonmarital Sexuality
04. In contrast to the large proportion of adolescents who refuse to practice safe sex, nearly one-third of
sexually experienced unmarried American women have changed their sexual behavior in response to
the threat of AIDS. The most common change among these women was:
(a) abstinence
(b) limiting their sex partners to one
(c) making AIDS testing a prerequisite to sexual activity
(d) changing from using the pill to having their partners use condoms
Answer = B Source: 336
Chap. 10: The Marital System
05. Research on how much household work men do, suggests that:
(a) In families where both husband and wife work outside the home, each does a similar amount of
household work.
(b) Due to the influence of the media (e.g., movies, TV), husbands with a traditional gender orientation
are doing significantly more housework since the 1990s.
(c) The difference in the amount of household work done by men and women has narrowed, but mainly
because women are doing less housework.
(d) The amount of housework that men do has been consistently in the range of 3-6 hours per week for
the past 30 years.
Answer = C Source: 350
Chap. 11: The Parental System
06. In 2000, most unwed births were to women:
(a) under age 15 (c) between 20-24
(b) between 15-19 (d) over age 25
Answer = C Source: 406
