Marriage and Family midterm NEMCC questions
with verified answers
____________ are most likely of all ethnic/racial categories to
intermarry.
A) Asian Americans
B) American Indians
C) Hispanics
D) African Americans Ans✓✓✓American Indians
_____________ refers to male or female anatomy and physiology.
A) sex
B) gender role
C) gender
D) gender identity Ans✓✓✓Sex
______________ theory suggests that people tend to marry others whose
social currency— social class, education, physical attractiveness— is
similar to their own.
A) interactionist
B) functionalist
C) exchange
,D) conflict Ans✓✓✓Exchange
A ___________ is a situation or place characterized by group living.
A) hospital
B) club
C) gathering
D) commune Ans✓✓✓Commune
A feminine expectation that has emerged over the past thirty years is that
of the "__________ woman:" independent, ambitious, and self-
confident.
A) professional
B) ideal
C) bureaucratic
D) powerful but lonely Ans✓✓✓Professional
A legally or policy-defined relationship between two individuals who
live together and share a domestic life but are not married is called a
A) common law partnership
B) civil arrangement
C) domestic partnership
,D) faux marriage relationship Ans✓✓✓Domestic partnership
A majority of children live in __________ households.
A) two parent
B) single father
C) divorced
D) single mother Ans✓✓✓Two parent
A person who believed in the "family-decline" theory might say the
following:
A) there has been a serious breakdown in marriage and family values
B) there is no marriage crisis
C) families today are better off than in the past
D) family life isn't getting worse, it just adjusts to the times
Ans✓✓✓There has been a serious breakdown in marriage and family
values
A relative absence of assertiveness and ambition characterizes our
expectations of women, who are thought to embody __________
character traits.
A) aggressive
B) expressive
, C) instrumental
D) agentic Ans✓✓✓Expressive
A sense of one's sexual identity begins in ___________.
A) adulthood
B) puberty
C) childhood
D) adolescence Ans✓✓✓Childhood
About __________ percent of all American children are expected to live
in a single-parent household at some point in their lives.
A) 90
B) 50
C) 25
D) 10 Ans✓✓✓25
About ___________ percent of Americans say that they favor legal
marriage for same sex couples.
A) 15
B)60
C)25
with verified answers
____________ are most likely of all ethnic/racial categories to
intermarry.
A) Asian Americans
B) American Indians
C) Hispanics
D) African Americans Ans✓✓✓American Indians
_____________ refers to male or female anatomy and physiology.
A) sex
B) gender role
C) gender
D) gender identity Ans✓✓✓Sex
______________ theory suggests that people tend to marry others whose
social currency— social class, education, physical attractiveness— is
similar to their own.
A) interactionist
B) functionalist
C) exchange
,D) conflict Ans✓✓✓Exchange
A ___________ is a situation or place characterized by group living.
A) hospital
B) club
C) gathering
D) commune Ans✓✓✓Commune
A feminine expectation that has emerged over the past thirty years is that
of the "__________ woman:" independent, ambitious, and self-
confident.
A) professional
B) ideal
C) bureaucratic
D) powerful but lonely Ans✓✓✓Professional
A legally or policy-defined relationship between two individuals who
live together and share a domestic life but are not married is called a
A) common law partnership
B) civil arrangement
C) domestic partnership
,D) faux marriage relationship Ans✓✓✓Domestic partnership
A majority of children live in __________ households.
A) two parent
B) single father
C) divorced
D) single mother Ans✓✓✓Two parent
A person who believed in the "family-decline" theory might say the
following:
A) there has been a serious breakdown in marriage and family values
B) there is no marriage crisis
C) families today are better off than in the past
D) family life isn't getting worse, it just adjusts to the times
Ans✓✓✓There has been a serious breakdown in marriage and family
values
A relative absence of assertiveness and ambition characterizes our
expectations of women, who are thought to embody __________
character traits.
A) aggressive
B) expressive
, C) instrumental
D) agentic Ans✓✓✓Expressive
A sense of one's sexual identity begins in ___________.
A) adulthood
B) puberty
C) childhood
D) adolescence Ans✓✓✓Childhood
About __________ percent of all American children are expected to live
in a single-parent household at some point in their lives.
A) 90
B) 50
C) 25
D) 10 Ans✓✓✓25
About ___________ percent of Americans say that they favor legal
marriage for same sex couples.
A) 15
B)60
C)25
