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Chapter 10: Power and Violence in Marriages and Families



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

 1. 

In the purest sense (as explored by the text), "power" is:
a.
the ability to require people to do what you want them to do
b.
something that is granted by the norms of religious or quasi-religious rituals
c.
something that is granted by the legal norms
d.
roughly equivalent to "influence"
 

 2. 

Social power is the kind of power that an individual exercises:
a.
among the upper-middle and upper classes
b.
over oneself in public, in accordance with social norms
c.
over oneself and is similar to self-discipline or self-control, except it is social
d.
over others
 

 3. 

The Blood and Wolfe research about family decision-making structure has been criticized for:
a.
failing to consider the effect of social class on decision-making
b.
ignoring the impact that resources have on who gets to make final decisions
c.
not considering the extent to which education has an effect on family decision-- making
d.
assuming that the patriarchal power structure has been replaced by egalitarian marriages
 

 4. 

The resource hypothesis encourages people to see conjugal power as:
a.
a personality-based variable
b.
a resource that is hereditary in the same sense that parental educational level is hereditary
c.
equivalent to other kinds of power in its long-term, general impact on behavior
d.
shared rather than patriarchal
 

 5. 

According to the text, "micropolitics" is something that goes on:
a.
within families
b.
within one's own mind
c.
within neighborhoods
d.
at community-wide, state, and regional levels, and is primarily institutional
 

 6. 

As the text uses the term, _________ seek to negotiate and compromise, not to "win".
a.
segmental power couples
b.
no-power couples
c.
patriarchal couples
d.
autocratic couples
 

 7. 

Which of these means that both partners exert about equal power?
a.
no-power
b.
quasi-equilibrated power
c.
centered power
d.
scattered power
 

 8. 

In "neutralizing power", the subordinate:
a.
has counterarguments
b.
refuses to cooperate, takes a neutral position
c.
matches blow for blow and insult for insult with her/his opposition
d.
quote past happenings in the relationship, which most of the time results in the opponent withdraw from arguing
 

 9. 

The most common form of family violence is violence between:
a.
mother and child
b.
mother and father
c.
father and child
d.
none of these
 

 10. 

What is the third stage in the cycle of domestic violence referred to in the textbook?
a.
after a mild argument, the husband is tired and still angry
b.
the husband explodes into anger and physically abuses the wife
c.
the husband expresses regret and appears to be genuinely contrite
d.
the wife's reluctance to accept apologies angers the husband to be more violent
 



 
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