HDFS 3320 EXAM 1 PRACTICE TEST 100
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
RATIONALES
Kinship, Theory, and Pre-Industrial Family Forms
Questions
1. Which family structure consists strictly of a husband, a wife,
and their biological or adopted children?
A) Extended family
B) Conjugal family
C) Stem family
D) Matrilocal family
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: A conjugal family, also referred to as a nuclear
family, is centered around the marital bond and includes
only parents and their immediate children.
2. In a matrilineal society, such as certain Native American
tribes like the Cherokee, how is descent and property
inheritance traced?
A) Through the father's line
B) Jointly through both parents
C) Through the mother's line
D) Via the maternal uncle's patrilineal lineage
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Rationale: Matrilineal tribes trace kinship, lineage, and
tribal belonging strictly through the mother’s line.
3. Which term describes a marriage system where one woman
is married to more than one man simultaneously?
A) Polygyny
, B) Polyandry
C) Monogamy
D) Polyamory
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Polyandry is a specific form of polygamy where
one female has multiple husbands concurrently.
4. According to the life-course perspective, what is the primary
focus of the growing body of literature on "emerging
adulthood"?
A) The shrinking gap between childhood and puberty
B) The sudden compression of the retirement phase
C) A lengthening transitional period from adolescence to full
adulthood
D) The decline of institutionalized schooling
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Rationale: Emerging adulthood highlights an expanded life
phase where individuals delay traditional adult markers
like marriage or careers.
5. What economic benefit explains why early historical families
lived in shared close proximity or extended structures?
A) The enforcement of modern privacy laws
B) Economies of scale and shared survival burdens
C) Minimizing the emotional closeness of members
D) Maximizing geographical mobility
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Living together allowed early families to utilize
economies of scale, maximizing resources and physical
safety.
,6. How did Pre-Revolutionary European colonists in New
England view the role of the family?
A) As a strictly private emotional refuge from public life
B) As a self-contained economic and public governance unit
C) As a temporary arrangement ending at adolescence
D) As a non-religious secular construct
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Colonial families operated as "little
commonwealths," serving as schools, vocational training
centers, and houses of welfare.
7. Under the doctrine of "coverture" in English common law,
what happened to a woman's legal identity upon marriage?
A) It was fully maintained and independent of her husband
B) It was legally absorbed into that of her husband
C) It granted her unilateral control over family property
D) It allowed her to vote in municipal elections
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Coverture meant a married woman had no
independent legal entity; her property and legal rights
belonged to her husband.
8. Which concept refers to a family pattern where a newly
married couple is expected to live in the household or
community of the husband’s family?
A) Matrilocal
B) Patrilocal
C) Neolocal
D) Bilocal
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Patrilocal residency patterns establish the
, couple's home within or near the husband’s family of
orientation.
9. A family arrangement consisting of grandparents, aunts,
uncles, and cousins living under one roof or in close
proximity is known as what?
A) Nuclear family
B) Stem family
C) Extended family
D) Blended family
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Rationale: Extended families span multiple generations and
wider kinship networks outside the conjugal unit.
10. What is the defining characteristic of a polygynous
marriage system?
A) One woman has multiple husbands
B) One man has multiple wives
C) Multiple men marry multiple women simultaneously
D) Marriages are dissolved without formal divorce
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Polygyny is a form of plural marriage where
one male cohabits with multiple legal or customary wives.
11. Why did early hunter-gatherer societies maintain
smaller conjugal units compared to agrarian societies?
A) High levels of agricultural surplus
B) Strict religious mandates favoring nuclearity
C) The need for high mobility and limited resource
consumption
D) Industrial job markets
CORRECT ANSWER: C
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
RATIONALES
Kinship, Theory, and Pre-Industrial Family Forms
Questions
1. Which family structure consists strictly of a husband, a wife,
and their biological or adopted children?
A) Extended family
B) Conjugal family
C) Stem family
D) Matrilocal family
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: A conjugal family, also referred to as a nuclear
family, is centered around the marital bond and includes
only parents and their immediate children.
2. In a matrilineal society, such as certain Native American
tribes like the Cherokee, how is descent and property
inheritance traced?
A) Through the father's line
B) Jointly through both parents
C) Through the mother's line
D) Via the maternal uncle's patrilineal lineage
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Rationale: Matrilineal tribes trace kinship, lineage, and
tribal belonging strictly through the mother’s line.
3. Which term describes a marriage system where one woman
is married to more than one man simultaneously?
A) Polygyny
, B) Polyandry
C) Monogamy
D) Polyamory
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Polyandry is a specific form of polygamy where
one female has multiple husbands concurrently.
4. According to the life-course perspective, what is the primary
focus of the growing body of literature on "emerging
adulthood"?
A) The shrinking gap between childhood and puberty
B) The sudden compression of the retirement phase
C) A lengthening transitional period from adolescence to full
adulthood
D) The decline of institutionalized schooling
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Rationale: Emerging adulthood highlights an expanded life
phase where individuals delay traditional adult markers
like marriage or careers.
5. What economic benefit explains why early historical families
lived in shared close proximity or extended structures?
A) The enforcement of modern privacy laws
B) Economies of scale and shared survival burdens
C) Minimizing the emotional closeness of members
D) Maximizing geographical mobility
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Living together allowed early families to utilize
economies of scale, maximizing resources and physical
safety.
,6. How did Pre-Revolutionary European colonists in New
England view the role of the family?
A) As a strictly private emotional refuge from public life
B) As a self-contained economic and public governance unit
C) As a temporary arrangement ending at adolescence
D) As a non-religious secular construct
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Colonial families operated as "little
commonwealths," serving as schools, vocational training
centers, and houses of welfare.
7. Under the doctrine of "coverture" in English common law,
what happened to a woman's legal identity upon marriage?
A) It was fully maintained and independent of her husband
B) It was legally absorbed into that of her husband
C) It granted her unilateral control over family property
D) It allowed her to vote in municipal elections
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Coverture meant a married woman had no
independent legal entity; her property and legal rights
belonged to her husband.
8. Which concept refers to a family pattern where a newly
married couple is expected to live in the household or
community of the husband’s family?
A) Matrilocal
B) Patrilocal
C) Neolocal
D) Bilocal
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Patrilocal residency patterns establish the
, couple's home within or near the husband’s family of
orientation.
9. A family arrangement consisting of grandparents, aunts,
uncles, and cousins living under one roof or in close
proximity is known as what?
A) Nuclear family
B) Stem family
C) Extended family
D) Blended family
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Rationale: Extended families span multiple generations and
wider kinship networks outside the conjugal unit.
10. What is the defining characteristic of a polygynous
marriage system?
A) One woman has multiple husbands
B) One man has multiple wives
C) Multiple men marry multiple women simultaneously
D) Marriages are dissolved without formal divorce
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Rationale: Polygyny is a form of plural marriage where
one male cohabits with multiple legal or customary wives.
11. Why did early hunter-gatherer societies maintain
smaller conjugal units compared to agrarian societies?
A) High levels of agricultural surplus
B) Strict religious mandates favoring nuclearity
C) The need for high mobility and limited resource
consumption
D) Industrial job markets
CORRECT ANSWER: C
