Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Rodolpho and Mimi are determined to put each other first in their lives, to try to
make each other happy, and to try to make their relationship endure. Which of the following applies
to this example?
a. | aggressive-conformist marriage | b. | the marriage
premise | c. | the marriage gradient | d. | the N.A.S.H.
process | | |
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The
commitment of both partners to keeping each other the most important person in their lives is called:
a. | fronting | b. | Christian love | c. | humanistic love
or "agape" | d. | primariness | | |
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Newlyweds negotiate expectations for sex and intimacy, establish communication and
decision-making patterns, and come to some agreements about childbearing. According to the textbook,
such newlyweds are involved in:
a. | creative institutionalization | b. | role
making | c. | boundary-maintaining | d. | primary
institutionalization | | |
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Which
of the following is most incompatible with "sexual exclusivity"?
a. | anticipatory
socialization | b. | swinging | c. | professionalization | d. | social mobility | | |
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The
"intrinsic marriage" offers:
a. | increased promise of upward social
mobility | b. | community rewards | c. | external
rewards, because each is free to see rewards (other than sexual) outside the
relationship | d. | intense emotional rewards | | |
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A
"vital marriage" is one in which the partners:
a. | are brought
together because of some pressing mutual crisis that they solve jointly | b. | many because one
of them has a pressing need or desire for marriage | c. | marry because
someone else wants the marriage to happen | d. | none of the above | | |
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"Total" marriages are also:
a. | superficial | b. | intense but tend to be more
divorce-plagued | c. | on the increase | d. | intrinsic | | |
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A
flexible marriage is one in which:
a. | a marriage contract or personal contract specifies what the
requirements are | b. | people may change in terms of their sexual
preferences | c. | the partners are not subject to the ordinary legal system and
its definitions | d. | partners are relatively free to grow and
change | | |
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Consanguineous relatives are those who:
a. | are "blood
relatives"-persons to whom one is related by biological heredity | b. | are fictive
kin-referred to by kinship terms, but to whom there is no relationship by blood or
marriage | c. | become relatives through marriage, common law marriage, or
marriage-like cohabitation | d. | become relatives through adoption and are thus "real"
relatives, but who are not "blood" relatives | | |
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Jim,
who has always been anxious about growing older, finds it traumatic that the last of the family's
children-now age 24-has finally left home for separate lodgings. Jim is frantic about this additional
sign of his own aging, and largely because of it gets involved in a very temporary:
a. | intimacy
reduction affair | b. | reality-reducing affair | c. | reactive
affair | d. | marriage maintenance affair | | |
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