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Chapter 8: Marriage: A Unique Relationship



Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

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
 

 2. 

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
 

 3. 

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
 

 4. 

Which of the following is most incompatible with "sexual exclusivity"?
a.
anticipatory socialization
b.
swinging
c.
professionalization
d.
social mobility
 

 5. 

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
 

 6. 

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
 

 7. 

"Total" marriages are also:
a.
superficial
b.
intense but tend to be more divorce-plagued
c.
on the increase
d.
intrinsic
 

 8. 

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
 

 9. 

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
 

 10. 

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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