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Chapter 14: Divorce



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

 1. 

In the 20th century the frequency of divorce has had dips and upswings associated with:
a.
voter turnout in federal election years
b.
historical events such as the Great Depression and World Wars
c.
availability of commodities and foodstuffs, as determined by the market economy
d.
the fecundity rate
 

 2. 

The number of divorces per 1,000 population is the:
a.
refined divorce rate
b.
crude divorce rate
c.
demographic divorce rate
d.
none of the above
 

 3. 

Low or deficient emotional qualities of marriage:
a.
tend to lead to divorce
b.
tend to lead to divorce mainly among those who expect emotional satisfaction from marriage
c.
seem unrelated to the divorce rate
d.
are unrelated to the divorce rate unless the reason(s) for low emotional satisfaction are also directly related to some form of contact with the police or system of incarceration
 

 4. 

What Bohannan called "emotional divorce" was associated with:
a.
levels of psychological disturbance or anxiety prior to the divorce
b.
behaviors exhibited in the courtroom when proceedings were underway
c.
divorce between spouses who had strong feelings of whatever kind toward each other
d.
none of the above
 

 5. 

"Psychic divorce" refers to:
a.
an informal divorce, such as manifests itself in the instance of common law marriage
b.
divorces that take place "by proxy" in the way that some marriages formerly occurred by proxy
c.
attempted divorce by going to a medium or other person claiming special psychic powers, and achieving a mutual emotional/intellectual separation from the spouse in this manner
d.
none of these
 

 6. 

To be successful a(n) _________________ requires a long period of mourning.
a.
mortality divorce
b.
divorce that has been a long time in coming
c.
economic divorce
d.
none of the above
 

 7. 

A _________ study of divorce would have to study a cohort of married couples over a lifetime, collecting and analyzing data for the entire period.
a.
longitudinal
b.
randomized
c.
stratified
d.
none of the above
 

 8. 

"No-fault" divorce legally abolishes:
a.
the need for expensive legal proceedings
b.
legal proceedings at all; the couple simply go their separate ways
c.
the concept of the "guilty party"
d.
marriage ties, but does not abolish economic ties
 

 9. 

"Displaced homemakers" are divorced women who:
a.
literally find themselves out on the street, looking for new residence
b.
find that someone else has taken their place in their ex-husband's affections
c.
are older, full-time homemakers who suddenly find themselves divorced and without adequate support
d.
are not given custody of their children; that custody goes to the husband and/or to the husband's new partner
 

 10. 

The "sleeper effect" is found among:
a.
girls coming from divorced families
b.
divorced wives
c.
teenage boys coming from divorced families
d.
the timing of expenses related to getting divorced, about two-thirds of which expenses arrive more than six months after the divorce is legally granted
 



 
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