Patterns Of Family Relations Chapter 6 Exam Questions

Chapter 6: Patterns of Family Relations

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Multiple Choice

1. Nuclear families include a person’s ______.

a. mother

b. grandmother

c. aunt

d. cousin

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. In the United States, kinship is ______.

a. ambilineal

b. matrilineal

c. patrilineal

d. bilateral

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. What is one matrilineal practice in the United States?

a. Fathers passing their last names to children

b. Mothers more frequently gaining custody of children during divorce

c. Inheriting property from both maternal and paternal grandparents

d. Women serving in Congress

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The major difference between matrilineal and patrilineal systems is ______.

a. which gender holds more political power

b. whether men or women are considered more valuable

c. whether kin ties are stronger with the mother’s or father’s side of the family

d. whether sons or daughters are preferred

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The ______ is correlated with gender power dynamics in societies.

a. social construction of reproduction

b. inherent usefulness of each gender

c. biological superiority of one gender over another

d. objective understanding of biological reproduction

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Biologically speaking, the relative contributions of each parent to reproduction are ______.

a. equal

b. male-dominated

c. female-dominated

d. dominated by the fittest parent

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The Bushmen trace descent from ______.

a. the mother’s side

b. the father’s side

c. both sides

d. whichever side is more prestigious

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Composition of the Bushman

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. A typical Bushman family includes ______.

a. a husband, wife, and children

b. the nuclear family plus maternal grandparents

c. the nuclear family plus paternal extended family

d. all female siblings and their children plus all unmarried male siblings

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Family Composition of the Bushman

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. A Trobriander man’s dala would include ______.

a. his children

b. his maternal uncle

c. his wife

d. his paternal aunt

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family Composition of the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Which of the following groups were/are matrilineal?

a. Traditional Chinese farmers

b. Bushmen

c. Trobriand Islanders

d. Americans

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Composition of the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Traditional Chinese farming families included ______.

a. the nuclear family plus married daughters

b. the living as well as the dead

c. a woman and all of her descendants

d. a man, his unmarried male children, and his unmarried male grandchildren

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family Composition of the Chinese

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. An American is mostly likely to marry someone who ______.

a. was chosen for them by their parents

b. is similar to them in terms of class, race, and religion

c. pays a high dowry

d. has been vetted by a matchmaker

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. American weddings are traditionally paid for by the ______.

a. couple themselves

b. community as a whole

c. bride’s family

d. groom’s family

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Marriage among the Bushmen is most beneficial for ______.

a. the husband, who gains social status, food, and sex from his wife

b. the husband, who receives a large dowry from his wife’s family

c. the wife, who receives protection and wealth from her husband

d. the wife, who gains social status, food, and sex from her husband

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Bushman

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. A Bushman man is most likely to select the marriage partner who(m) ______.

a. he loves

b. is similar to him in race, status, and religion

c. his parents chose for him

d. is wealthiest

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Bushman

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The parents of a young Bushman girl are selecting her husband. They would be least likely to choose the potential match who ______.

a. lives in a neighboring village

b. has been with other women

c. is a few years older than their daughter

d. shares the father’s name

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Bushman

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Divorce is easier to obtain for which group?

a. Bushmen and Trobriand Islanders

b. patriarchal societies

c. Americans

d. traditional Chinese farmers

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Bushman

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Premarital sexual activity among the Trobrianders is ______.

a. nonexistent

b. restricted to partners one would not marry

c. common but punished harshly

d. socially acceptable and frequent

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Which of the following statements about the Trobrianders is true?

a. Young women often strongly object to marriage.

b. They observe exogamy and marry out of one clan and into another.

c. Their choice of a marriage partner is based on love and sexual attraction.

d. The family lineage is interdependent on the living and dead.

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. ______ are important in the Trobriander negotiation of status and family relationships.

a. Fish

b. Boats

c. Yams

d. Arrows

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. If a Trobriander man never receives a yam house, it publicly demonstrates that ______.

a. he is bad at growing yams

b. his wife’s family thinks poorly of him

c. he cannot afford to have one built

d. the ancestors do not approve of him

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. The traditional Chinese farming family is arranged around the relationship between ______.

a. father and son

b. husband and wife

c. brother and sister

d. nephew and maternal uncle

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Chinese

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Which of the following statements is true about the wealth exchange in a traditional Chinese marriage?

a. It flows from the bride’s side to the groom’s side.

b. It flows from the groom’s side to the bride’s side.

c. It goes both directions.

d. It involves the couple merging their assets.

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Chinese

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The traditional Chinese wife becomes a full member of her husband’s household when ______.

a. she bears a son

b. the couple is engaged

c. the couple marries

d. her dowry is paid

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Chinese

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Women’s sexuality is most supported throughout life among the ______.

a. Bushmen

b. Trobriand Islanders

c. Chinese

d. Americans

Learning Objective: Question 6.3: What are the roles of sexuality, love, and wealth?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sex, Love, and Wealth Among the Bushmen

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Bridal virginity is most important among the ______.

a. Bushmen

b. Trobriand Islanders

c. Chinese

d. Americans

Learning Objective: Question 6.3: What are the roles of sexuality, love, and wealth?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sex, Love, and Wealth Among the Chinese

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. When is a Trobriander woman most likely to emphasize her sexuality?

a. During adolescence but not once she marries

b. Only once she marries

c. Throughout her life

d. Only if she is a prostitute

Learning Objective: Question 6.3: What are the roles of sexuality, love, and wealth?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Sex, Love, and Wealth Among the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Which of the following marital units is polygynous?

a. one husband and three wives

b. one wife and two husbands

c. one husband and one wife

d. two husbands and no wife

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Threats to the Bushman Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Bushman men with multiple wives experience ______ status and ______ stress.

a. higher; higher

b. higher; lower

c. lower; higher

d. lower; lower

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Threats to the Bushman Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. The biggest source of conflict for Bushman families is ______.

a. discipline

b. infidelity

c. sorcery

d. childlessness

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Threats to the Bushman Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. Which of the following situations would cause the most conflict for a Trobriander family?

a. The husband sleeps with a woman who is not his wife, causing jealousy in his wife.

b. A cousin dies in his sleep.

c. The wife cannot bear a son.

d. The husband buys a large television even though the family cannot afford it.

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Threats to the Trobriand Island Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. One usually positive trait that can be weaponized among the Trobrianders is ______.

a. happiness

b. kindness

c. resilience

d. generosity

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Threats to the Trobriand Island Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. A traditional Chinese son takes care of his father in his old age because he ______.

a. is obligated to obey his father’s authority

b. will not receive yams from his brother-in-law if he does not

c. has a very affectionate relationship with his father

d. will be susceptible to sorcery from other families if he does not

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Threats to the Chinese Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. A soap opera plot that appeals to rural Chinese families would most likely feature ______.

a. a woman leaving town to become a prostitute

b. a series of funerals in which families compete to give away the most

c. a husband being unfaithful to his wife, who gets even by being unfaithful herself

d. brothers conspiring to get the biggest share of the inheritance from their father

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Threats to the Chinese Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. Wealth in traditional Chinese families is ideally passed down via ______ inheritance.

a. genetic

b. bilateral

c. partible

d. impartible

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Threats to the Chinese Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Matrilineal societies are also matriarchal.

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Composition of the Trobriand Islanders

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Bushman women often do not wish to marry.

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Family Cycle of the Bushman

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Traditional Chinese people look down on women who are prostitutes.

Learning Objective: Question 6.3: What are the roles of sexuality, love, and wealth?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex, Love, and Wealth Among the Chinese

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Infidelity is rare among the Bushmen.

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Threats to the Bushman Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. One way for a Trobriander man to show his feelings about his brother-in-law is to not work hard in his sister’s yam garden.

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Threats to the Trobriand Island Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. What was the importance of male descendants in traditional Chinese farming families?

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Family Composition of the Chinese

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Compare and contrast the ideal American, Bushman, Trobriand, and traditional Chinese families.

Learning Objective: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Question 6.1: What is the composition of the typical family group?

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. For the Bushmen, Trobriand Islanders, and traditional Chinese, how does the most significant family relationship impact the family as a whole?

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Compare and contrast the formality of marriage and divorce among the Bushmen, Trobriand Islanders, and traditional Chinese farming families. What cultural factors lead to this formality and to the ease or difficulty of obtaining divorce?

Learning Objective: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Question 6.2: How are families formed and ideal family types maintained?

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. How is the biggest threat to the family among the Bushmen, Trobriand Islanders, and traditional Chinese reflective of the family as a whole?

Learning Objective: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Question 6.4: What threatens to disrupt the family unit?

Difficulty Level: Hard