FAM 354 TEST QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED 2024-
2025
How does the author propose marriage as a system would work better? Rather than
simply increasing the number of marriages - Answer ✔ Creating more stable, more
beneficial social relationships, if the practice were less universal. Somewhere in
between no marriage at all or 100% married.
Breadwinning" or wage-earning is an integral part of _____, in many cultural traditions. -
Answer ✔ mothering
Why were enslaved African families better able to build new kinship networks than
Native American families, and how did they do this - Answer ✔ They adapted cultural
traditions, child-centered rather than marriage-centered family systems, fictive kin ties,
co-parents and god parenting,
Though slave owners encouraged family formation and slaves frequently did marry and
form families, how were these families often disrupted - Answer ✔ They were disrupted
from marriage because of sales and families were controlled by a master
What became the major mechanism for increasing the Chinese population after the San
Francisco earthquake and fire? - Answer ✔ paper sons
How did economic conditions in the U.S. after 1848 affect Chicano households? -
Answer ✔ They discouraged and prohibited family settlement, more female-headed
households were seen and not because of divorce but because of the death of
husbands doing dangerous lines of work.
What were some major issues with the social deficit perspective? - Answer ✔ Ignores
the ongoing impact of contemporary racism on Black families• Overlooks the ways that
African cultural values and traditions were maintained
What were the cultural strengths of Black - Answer ✔ Resilience, religion, flexible
gender roles, a strong achievement orientation, extended family ties, shared
childbearing, and informal adoption.
Why are daughters of immigrant families often pressured to adhere to traditional values,
such as arranged marriage? Why can failure to conform bring dishonor to the family -
CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED 2024-
2025
How does the author propose marriage as a system would work better? Rather than
simply increasing the number of marriages - Answer ✔ Creating more stable, more
beneficial social relationships, if the practice were less universal. Somewhere in
between no marriage at all or 100% married.
Breadwinning" or wage-earning is an integral part of _____, in many cultural traditions. -
Answer ✔ mothering
Why were enslaved African families better able to build new kinship networks than
Native American families, and how did they do this - Answer ✔ They adapted cultural
traditions, child-centered rather than marriage-centered family systems, fictive kin ties,
co-parents and god parenting,
Though slave owners encouraged family formation and slaves frequently did marry and
form families, how were these families often disrupted - Answer ✔ They were disrupted
from marriage because of sales and families were controlled by a master
What became the major mechanism for increasing the Chinese population after the San
Francisco earthquake and fire? - Answer ✔ paper sons
How did economic conditions in the U.S. after 1848 affect Chicano households? -
Answer ✔ They discouraged and prohibited family settlement, more female-headed
households were seen and not because of divorce but because of the death of
husbands doing dangerous lines of work.
What were some major issues with the social deficit perspective? - Answer ✔ Ignores
the ongoing impact of contemporary racism on Black families• Overlooks the ways that
African cultural values and traditions were maintained
What were the cultural strengths of Black - Answer ✔ Resilience, religion, flexible
gender roles, a strong achievement orientation, extended family ties, shared
childbearing, and informal adoption.
Why are daughters of immigrant families often pressured to adhere to traditional values,
such as arranged marriage? Why can failure to conform bring dishonor to the family -
