True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or
false.
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In
colonial North America, women’s work was confined to the home while men worked at some distance
away.
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2.
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In
18th century North America many households contained non-related members, such as
indentured servants.
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In
households in colonial North America, unlike today in some areas of the United States and Canada,
privacy was an unattainable luxury.
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4.
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The
colonial household was a centre of economic production with no clear division between the public and
the private.
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5.
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Colonial women, like the women of today, constantly grappled with the reasons for
their lack of equal status with men.
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In
colonial North America, an important goal of child rearing was to cure children of an inborn tendency
to wickedness, and fathers played an important part in pursuing this goal.
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7.
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The
“traditional family” that North American conservatives often contrast to the current state
of affairs was actually a historical aberration, which was only widespread for a short period after
WWII.
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In
societies where women leave their homes to live with their husbands’ families at marriage it is
common to require a groom or his family to compensate a bride’s family for the loss of her
labour.
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9.
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In
societies with matrilocal residence it is common to require women’s families to pay a
“groom price” to compensate men’s families for the loss of their labour.
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Polygamy, the levirate, marriage to close relatives and adoption for the purpose of
acquiring heirs are all practices condoned in the Bible but later discouraged by the Christian
Church.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
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Families in which brothers and sisters rather than husbands and wives live together
are called______________. a. | step families | b. | consanguine families | c. | conjugal families | d. | nuclear families | e. | polyandrous families | | |
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_______________ is a Canadian anthropologist who has studied Inuit childrearing
patterns. a. | Jean
Briggs | b. | Margaret
Mead | c. | Ruth
Benedict | d. | Edith
Turner | e. | Cora Du
Bois | | |
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By the
1990s _____________ of Canadian families were headed by divorced, separated, or never-married
individuals.
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In
1996, nearly__________ of all female-headed families in Canada were in a low-income
situation. a. | 10% | b. | 30% | c. | 50% | d. | 70% | e. | 90% | | |
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Urban
Canadian families resemble traditional Inuit families in certain ways because
________ a. | the cold Canadian
climate was conducive to that family type | b. | Canadians were influenced by the Inuit during the early
period of contact | c. | mobility has been advantageous to both traditional Inuit
and urban Canadians | d. | such families are the most natural
kind | e. | children are
conditioned in both Inuit and urban Canadian society not to depend on family
members. | | |
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Residence of married couples with the husband’s father’s extended family is
called _________ residence. a. | avunculocal | b. | neolocal | c. | matrilocal | d. | patrilocal | e. | ambilocal | | |
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_______________ residence is the arrangement favoured by most North Americans at the
time of marriage, though it is by no means universal. a. | patrilocal | b. | matrilocal | c. | avunculocal | d. | ambilocal | e. | neolocal | | |
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Anthropologists suggest that matrilocal residence arrangements are most likely to
occur in________________________. a. | societies where women have low
status | b. | societies where
men hunt together and mothers and daughters need to rely on each other | c. | societies characterized by intensive
agriculture | d. | societies which
depend on women’s labour in horticulture | e. | early state societies | | |
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___________ residence is particularly well suited to situations where economic
cooperation beyond the nuclear family is needed but people must be free to live with whatever kin
need their help the most. a. | matrilocal | b. | patrilocal | c. | ambilocal | d. | neolocal | e. | avunculocal | | |
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A
preference for __________ residence is often found in societies which emphasize male/male ties for
some purposes but where descent through women is an important cultural value. a. | patrilocal | b. | neolocal | c. | matrilocal | d. | avunculocal | e. | ambilocal | | |
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In the
Trobriand Islands, where, __________ residence is the ideal form, most married couples live
___________________. a. | neolocal; patrilocally | b. | avunculocal; patrilocally | c. | avunculocal; matrilocally | d. | patrilocal; avunculocally | e. | matrilocal; avunculocally | | |
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_____________ refers to marriage to two or more women who are
sisters. a. | fraternal
polyandry | b. | sororal
monogamy | c. | sororal
polygyny | d. | the
levirate | e. | widow
inheritance | | |
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Which
of the following is a problem commonly encountered in a situation of fraternal
polyandry? a. | jealousy between
sisters | b. | lack of interest
in sex on the part of both husbands and wives | c. | lack of interest in sex on the part of husbands
only | d. | lack of interest
in sex on the part of wives only | e. | a lack of chances for younger brothers to
reproduce | | |
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Among
the Hawazama pastoralists of the Sudan_________________. a. | a man’s wives ideally live together in
peace | b. | quarrelling is
expected because wives share the same resources | c. | polygyny is discouraged and actually quite
rare | d. | a man may have one
wife who lives with nomadic pastoralists and another who lives in a more permanent settlement where
crop-raising is the main form of subsistence. | e. | polyandry is common | | |
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Training of children to
be
is often associated with success in extended family life. a. | self reliant and creative | b. | compliant and accepting | c. | dominant and aggressive | d. | acquisitive and possessive | e. | competitive and egocentric | | |
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The
concept of ___________ often acts as a check on abuse of power in extended family
relationships. a. | egocentricity | b. | matrifocality | c. | “face” | d. | humility | e. | dominance | | |
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In
traditional China, women often tired to protect their interests by developing close ties with their
_______________. a. | fathers | b. | mothers | c. | daughters | d. | sons | e. | sisters | | |
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Which
of the following problems is most likely to occur in societies which practice neolocal
residence? a. | isolation of
married couples from their kin | b. | dominance of young people by their
elders | c. | lack of
geographical mobility | d. | lack of privacy | e. | difficulty in making a finite area of land support an
ever-growing kindred | | |
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According to John O’Neil and his associates
____________________. a. | First Nations people resent the fact that they are the
subject of less public health research than people of European descent. | b. | many First Nations people resent being the subjects of
public health research | c. | public health research has led to more autonomy for First
Nations people | d. | public health
research has historically been a rare example of successful cooperation between First Nations people
and the Canadian government. | | |
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They
are Gaelic-speaking fisher folk, they live in Ireland, they don't marry until they are in their late
20s or early 30s, they continue to live with their brothers and sisters rather than with their
spouses after they marry. This is a description of which group of people? a. | Trobriand Islanders | b. | Icelanders | c. | Tory Islanders | d. | Adaman Islanders | e. | Virgin Islanders | | |
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